Home›Slavic Languages›Official Status›Official LanguageBrowse ByOfficial LanguageOfficial status records whether a government or body has formally recognized a language. Wikipedia notes that Spanish "is the official language of 21 countries, as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations," a formal standing well beyond how widely it is merely spoken. This dimension separates languages with formal recognition from those spoken without any official status.FactsOfficial LanguageSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Speakers (Millions)Well-attested315 1Official LanguageFilter Results11 entriesLanguage Family (Classification)AllBalto-Slavic (3)East Slavic (3)Slavic (4)South Slavic (5)West Slavic (3)RegionAllAsia (3)Australia (1)Carpathian Ruthenia (1)Central Asia (1)Eastern Europe (2)Europe (11)North America (2)South America (1)The Caucasus (1)Speaker Count BandAll16,000,000 to 59,000,000 (2)430,000 to 5,500,000 (5)5,600,000 to 15,000,000 (3)60,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 (1)StatusAllLiving (11)Script UsedAllCyrillic Script (6)Latin Script (6)Language KindAllSafe (7)Vulnerable (3)TonalAllNot Tonal (3)Word OrderAllOther (1)SVO (7)Period Start YearAll901 (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)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 11BelarusianOfficial LanguageBulgarianOfficial LanguageCroatianOfficial LanguageCzechOfficial LanguageMacedonianOfficial LanguagePolishOfficial LanguageRussianOfficial LanguageSerbianOfficial LanguageSlovakOfficial LanguageSlovenianOfficial LanguageUkrainianOfficial LanguageSources1. 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.