Slavic languages

E15078
branch of Indo-European languages language family

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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Serbian language → subfamily → Slavic languages ⓘ
Slovene → subfamily → Slavic languages ⓘ
Slavs → useLanguageFamily → Slavic languages ⓘ
Cyrillic script → usedBy → Slavic languages ⓘ