Slavic languages

E15078

Slavic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Eastern and Central Europe, known for features such as rich consonant clusters, aspectual verb systems, and extensive case inflection.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Indo-European languages
language family
areOfficialIn Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Poland
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Ukraine
arePartOf Balto-Slavic languages
areRelatedTo Baltic languages
areSpokenIn Balkans
Caucasus
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Israel
North America
North Asia
surface form: Northern Asia
characterizedBy aspectual verb systems
complex morphology
extensive case inflection
palatalization contrasts
relatively free word order
rich consonant clusters
descendFrom Proto-Slavic language
developedFrom Common Slavic
earliestWrittenAttestation 9th century
hasSubdivision East Slavic languages
South Slavic languages
West Slavic languages
haveFeature grammatical gender
noun cases
rich derivational morphology
verbal aspect
historicalAncestor Proto-Slavic language
includeLanguage Standard Belarusian
surface form: Belarusian language

Bosnian
surface form: Bosnian language

Bulgarian language
Church Slavonic
Croatian language
Czech language
Kashubian language
Sorbian languages
surface form: Lower Sorbian language

Macedonian
surface form: Macedonian language

South Slavic languages
surface form: Montenegrin language

Church Slavonic
surface form: Old Church Slavonic

Czech language
surface form: Old Czech

Old East Slavic
Polish language
surface form: Old Polish

Polish language
Russian language
Rusyn language
Serbian language
Silesian language
Slovak language
Slovene language
Ukrainian language
Upper Sorbian language
liturgicalLanguage Church Slavonic
surface form: Old Church Slavonic
partOf Indo-European language family
subclassOf Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
typologically fusional languages
useScript Cyrillic script
Latin script

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Common Slavic ancestorOf Slavic languages
Balkan Sprachbund hasLanguageFamily Slavic languages
Balkans hasLanguageFamily Slavic languages
Minsky hasLanguageOfOrigin Slavic languages
Moskovitz hasLanguageOfOrigin Slavic languages
Zora hasLanguageOfUse Slavic languages
Pavel hasLanguageOrigin Slavic languages
Katarina hasLanguageUsage Slavic languages
vlaheşte hasLexicalBorrowingsFrom Slavic languages
Albanian language hasLoanwordSource Slavic languages
Hungarian language hasLoanwordsFrom Slavic languages
Balto-Slavic languages hasPart Slavic languages
Yiddish hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Slavic languages
Yiddish hasSyntacticInfluenceFrom Slavic languages
Romanians historicalLanguageInfluence Slavic languages
Balkan Latin influencedBy Slavic languages
Common Albanian influencedBy Slavic languages
Dalmatian language influencedBy Slavic languages
Esperanto influencedBy Slavic languages
Finnic languages influencedBy Slavic languages
Romani language influencedBy Slavic languages
Romanian language influencedBy Slavic languages
Leon isUsedIn Slavic languages
Peter isUsedIn Slavic languages
South Slavs languageBranch Slavic languages
Standard Belarusian languageBranch Slavic languages
Bosnian languageFamily Slavic languages
Central Europe languageFamily Slavic languages
Croatian languageFamily Slavic languages
Croats languageFamily Slavic languages
East Slavs languageFamily Slavic languages
Kashubian language languageFamily Slavic languages
Macedonian languageFamily Slavic languages
Mazovians languageFamily Slavic languages
Montenegrins languageFamily Slavic languages
Russians languageFamily Slavic languages
Serbs languageFamily Slavic languages
Slovak language languageFamily Slavic languages
Statism and Anarchy languageFamily Slavic languages
Ukrainians languageFamily Slavic languages
West Slavs languageFamily Slavic languages
Czech language languageGroup Slavic languages
Vladimir languageOfOrigin Slavic languages
Vojtech linguisticFamily Slavic languages
Stanislaw linguisticOrigin Slavic languages
Middle Ages majorLanguageFamily Slavic languages
Belarus nationalLanguageFamily Slavic languages
East Slavic languages subclassOf Slavic languages
South Slavic languages subclassOf Slavic languages