West Slavic groups Polish, Czech, Slovak, Kashubian and the extinct Polabian, spoken chiefly in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Facts
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 Connections
Descends From
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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