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South Slavic

Eurasian Language Families

South Slavic groups Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian and Macedonian, spoken across the Balkans.

Facts
Region
The Balkans 2
Speaker Count
30,000,000 2
Combined native speakers; mid-2020s estimate.
Proto-Language Status
Descends 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. 3
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Classification Confidence
Established 1
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Number of Languages
7 1
Connections

Descends From

Slavic, Language Families
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

Includes

Bosnian, Languages
Source Wikipedia: Bosnian Language
Bulgarian, Languages
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Croatian, Languages
Source Wikipedia: Croatian Language
Macedonian, Languages
Source Wikipedia: Macedonian Language
Serbian, Languages
Source Wikipedia: Serbian Language
Slovenian, Languages
Source Slovene language (Wikipedia)
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Church Slavonic

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Church Slavonic (Russian Recension)

Also in Divinity Atlas: included in this subject.

Ladino

Also in Divinity Atlas: included in this subject.

Old Church Slavonic

Also in Divinity Atlas: included in this subject.

Found In

The Balkans

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Sources
1. Glottolog: South Slavic (languoid record)
Glottolog
  • Languoid record: child_language_count
    "child_language_count": 7
  • Languoid record: level and category
    "level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
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2. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • Region: The Balkans
  • Speaker Count: 30,000,000
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3. Wikipedia: Proto-Slavic Language
WikipediaIntroduction
Quote, Introduction
Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages.
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Wikidata: South Slavic
Wikidata Q146665, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Wikipedia: Croatian Language
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Croatian, Infobox, Language family
Quote, Includes: Croatian, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Indo-European; immediate branch: South Slavic languages (Western South Slavic), within Serbo-Croatian.
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Wikipedia: Serbian Language
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Serbian, Infobox, Language family
Quote, Includes: Serbian, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Indo-European languages; immediate branch: Serbo-Croatian (within South Slavic languages).
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Wikipedia: Bosnian Language
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Bosnian, Infobox, Language family
Quote, Includes: Bosnian, Infobox, Language family
South Slavic
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Wikipedia: Macedonian Language
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Macedonian, Infobox, Language family
Quote, Includes: Macedonian, Infobox, Language family
South Slavic
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Slovene language (Wikipedia)
Includes: Slovenian, Infobox, Language family
Quote, Includes: Slovenian, Infobox, Language family
South Slavic
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