South Slavic groups Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian and Macedonian, spoken across the Balkans.
Facts
Speaker CountCombined native speakers; mid-2020s estimate. Proto-Language StatusDescends from Proto-Slavic, an unattested, reconstructed proto-language; overall Slavic linguistic unity and mutual intelligibility persisted into the tenth century or later before the East, West and South branches fully diverged. 2 Connections
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Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source Wikipedia: Croatian Language
Source Wikipedia: Serbian Language
Sources
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
2. Wikipedia: Proto-Slavic Language
WikipediaIntroductionQuote, Introduction
Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages.
Wikipedia: Croatian Language
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Top family: Indo-European; immediate branch: South Slavic languages (Western South Slavic), within Serbo-Croatian.
Wikipedia: Serbian Language
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Top family: Indo-European languages; immediate branch: Serbo-Croatian (within South Slavic languages).
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