West Slavic groups Polish, Czech, Slovak, Kashubian and the extinct Polabian, spoken chiefly in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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RegionPoland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia 1 Speaker CountCombined living 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 West Slavic
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Source Wikipedia: Slovak Language
Source Encyclopedia.com: Sorbs
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1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
2. Wikipedia: Proto-Slavic Language
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Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages.
Wikidata: West Slavic
Wikidata Q145852, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikipedia: Slovak Language
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West Slavic
Encyclopedia.com: Sorbs
Includes: Sorbian languages, Language sectionQuote, Includes: Sorbian languages, Language section
Together they make up the Sorbian Subgroup of the West Slavonic Group of the Indo-European Language Family.
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