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The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European branch, [ 3 ] which points to a period of common development and origin.
The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people [1] [2] mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Europe. Together with the Slavic languages, they form the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European family.
The Slavs are a collection of peoples who speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout northern Eurasia , mainly inhabiting Central and Eastern Europe , the Balkans , and Siberia .
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1] [2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
Serbo-Croatian, 21 million speakers (est.), including second language speakers Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin standards with dialectal differences; Bulgarian, 9 million (2005–12) Slovene, 2.5 million speakers (2010) Macedonian, 1.4–3.5 million speakers (1986–2011) Church Slavonic (liturgical)
The West Slavic languages are a subdivision of the Slavic language group. [1] They include Polish , Czech , Slovak , Kashubian , Silesian , Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian . [ 1 ] The languages have traditionally been spoken across a mostly continuous region encompassing the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Poland , [ 1 ] the westernmost regions of ...
This is a list of the ancient Baltic peoples and tribes. They spoke the Baltic languages (members of the broader Balto-Slavic), a branch of the Indo-European language family, which was originally spoken by tribes living in area east of Jutland peninsula, southern Baltic Sea coast in the west and Moscow, Oka and Volga rivers basins in the east, to the northwest of the Eurasian steppe.
The Slavic languages are part of the Balto-Slavic group, which belongs to the Indo-European language family. The South Slavic languages have been considered a genetic node in Slavic studies : defined by a set of phonological, morphological and lexical innovations (isoglosses) which separate it from the Western and Eastern Slavic groups.