Slavic languages facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Slavic |
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| Ethnicity: | Slavs |
| Geographic distribution: |
Throughout Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia |
| Linguistic classification: | Indo-European
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| Proto-language: | Proto-Slavic |
| Subdivisions: |
East Slavic
South Slavic
West Slavic
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| ISO 639-2 and 639-5: | sla |
 Countries where an East Slavic language is the national language
Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language |
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The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) are the largest language family of the Indo-European group. Slavic languages and dialects are spoken in Central, Eastern Europe, the Balkans and northern Asia.
Contents
List of Slavic languages
East Slavic languages
These languages are usually written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
West Slavic languages
These languages are usually written with the Roman alphabet.
- Czech-Slovak languages
- Lechitic languages
- Sorbian
- Upper Sorbian
- Lower Sorbian
South Slavic languages
- Eastern
- Western
- Serbian
- Montenegrin
- Bosnian
- Croatian
- Burgenland Croatian
- Molise Croatian
- Bunjevac Croatian
- Slovenian
- Serbian
Pan-Slavic languages
Images for kids
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Ethnographic Map of Slavic and Baltic Languages
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Area of Balto-Slavic dialectic continuum (purple) with proposed material cultures correlating to speakers Balto-Slavic in Bronze Age (white). Red dots = archaic Slavic hydronyms
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Baška tablet, 11th century, Krk, Croatia.
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14th-century Novgorodian children were literate enough to send each other letters written on birch bark.
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10th–11th century Codex Zographensis, canonical monument of Old Church Slavonic
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Map and tree of Slavic languages, according to Kassian and A. Dybo
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Linguistic maps of Slavic languages
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Map of all areas where the Russian language is the language spoken by the majority of the population.
See also
In Spanish: Lenguas eslavas para niños
