Home›Slavic Languages›All Slavic LanguagesBrowse ByAll Slavic LanguagesReference and ClassificationVerifiedThe East, West and South Slavic branches of Indo-European. Belongs here: Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Old Church Slavonic as the family's earliest written liturgical stage. Does not belong here: a Baltic language; Baltic and Slavic share a documented common ancestor further back but are classified as separate branches per Glottolog, placed in a different subcategory below.FactsAll Slavic LanguagesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Speakers (Millions)Well-attested315 1All Slavic LanguagesFilter Results15 entriesLanguage Family (Classification)AllBalto-Slavic (4)East Slavic (3)Slavic (6)South Slavic (6)West Slavic (4)RegionAllBelarus (1)Bosnia, Herzegovina and Sandžak (1)Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Croatia (1)Southeastern Europe (1)Ukraine (1)StatusAllLiturgical / Learned Use Only (1)Living (14)Speaker Count BandAll1700000.000000 (1)2500000.000000 (1)3100000.000000 (1)5000000.000000 (1)5094000.000000 (1)5100000.000000 (1)8000000.000000 (1)8200000.000000 (1)10700000.000000 (1)32000000.000000 (1)40000000.000000 (1)154000000.000000 (1)Script UsedAllCyrillic Script (7)Glagolitic Alphabet (1)Latin Script (7)Period Start YearAll863 (1)901 (1)1001 (1)1100 (1)1101 (2)1136 (1)1201 (1)1801 (1)Descends FromAllCentral Russian Dialects (1)Northern Russian dialect (1)Southern Russian dialect (1)Language KindAllExtinct (1)Safe (8)Vulnerable (3)Official StatusAllCo-Official Language (1)No Official Status (1)Official Language (11)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 15BelarusianSlavic LanguagesBosnianSlavic LanguagesBulgarianSlavic LanguagesCroatianSlavic LanguagesCzechSlavic LanguagesMacedonianSlavic LanguagesOld Church SlavonicSlavic LanguagesPolishSlavic LanguagesRussianSlavic LanguagesSerbianSlavic LanguagesSerbo-CroatianSlavic LanguagesSlovakSlavic LanguagesSlovenianSlavic LanguagesSorbian languagesSlavic LanguagesUkrainianSlavic LanguagesSources1. Wikipedia: Slavic Languagestier 2Wikimedia FoundationLead section, total speakers sentenceQuote, Lead section, total speakers sentenceThe number of speakers of all Slavic languages together was estimated to be 315 million at the turn of the twenty-first century.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.