Slavic

Also known as Slavic languages, Slavic language family

subfamily of Indo-European languages

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Slavic is a subfamily of Indo-European languages spoken primarily across Eastern Europe, Russia, and parts of Central Europe, including languages like Russian, Polish, and Czech. It matters because it's spoken by hundreds of millions of people and represents a major branch of the world's most widespread language family.

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Commons category: Slavic languages
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SLA
Stack Exchange tag: russian.stackexchange.com/tags/slavic
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 315000000
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The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic languages in a Balto-Slavic group within the Indo-European family.

The current geographical distribution of natively spoken Slavic languages includes the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and all the way from Western Siberia to the Russian Far East. Furthermore, the diasporas of many Slavic peoples have established isolated minorities of speakers of their languages all over the world. The number of speakers of all Slavic languages together was estimated to be 315 million at the turn of the twenty-first century. It is the largest ethno-linguistic group in Europe and is highly diverse.