Home›Slavic Languages›Language Family (Classification)Browse ByLanguage Family (Classification)This dimension links a language to the wider family it belongs to. Wikipedia describes Spanish as "a Romance language of the Indo-European language family," placing it inside two nested groupings at once. Browsing by language family gathers languages that share the same distant common ancestor.FactsLanguage Family (Classification)SourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Speakers (Millions)Well-attested315 1Language Family (Classification)Filter Results5 entriesRegionAllAsia (4)Australia (2)Bosnia and Herzegovina (3)Carpathian Ruthenia (2)Central Asia (2)Croatia (1)Eastern Europe (4)Europe (5)Germany (1)Montenegro (1)Moravia (1)North America (3)Serbia (1)South America (2)The Balkans (1)The Caucasus (2)Speaker Count BandAll16,000,000 to 59,000,000 (3)430,000 to 5,500,000 (4)5,600,000 to 15,000,000 (3)60,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 (2)Official StatusAllCo-Official Language (2)No Official Status (1)Official Language (5)StatusAllLiturgical / Learned Use Only (1)Living (5)Script UsedAllCyrillic Script (4)Glagolitic Alphabet (1)Latin Script (4)Language KindAllExtinct (1)Safe (5)Vulnerable (3)TonalAllNot Tonal (4)Word OrderAllOther (1)SOV (1)SVO (5)Period Start YearAll863 (1)901 (2)1001 (1)1100 (1)1101 (3)1136 (2)1201 (1)1801 (2)Descends FromAllCentral Russian Dialects (2)Northern Russian dialect (2)Southern Russian dialect (2)Classification ConfidenceAllEstablished (5)Number of LanguagesAll5 (1)7 (1)8 (1)20 (1)23 (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (2)Speaker CountAll30,000,000 (1)56,000,000 (1)225,000,000 (1)315,000,000 (1)322,000,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareBalto-SlavicLanguage Family (Classification)4 entriesEast SlavicLanguage Family (Classification)3 entriesSlavicLanguage Family (Classification)6 entriesSouth SlavicLanguage Family (Classification)6 entriesWest SlavicLanguage Family (Classification)4 entriesSources1. 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.