Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area)

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Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area) is a reconstructed grouping of early Slavic dialects thought to have developed in the southern regions of the Slavic-speaking world and to underlie the later South Slavic languages.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Slavic dialect grouping
hypothesized dialect area
reconstructed language stage
alsoKnownAs Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area)
surface form: Southern Common Slavic

Southern Proto-Slavic dialect area
classificationStatus theoretical construct
contrastedWith Northern Common Slavic
derivedFrom Proto-Slavic language
surface form: Proto-Slavic
developedIn southern regions of the Slavic-speaking world
fieldOfStudy Slavic linguistics
dialectology
historical phonology
hasBasisIn internal diversification of Common Slavic
hasFeature innovations leading to South Slavic morphology
innovations leading to South Slavic phonology
lexical developments specific to South Slavic
hasRegion Balkans
surface form: Balkan Peninsula

Eastern Alps
Carpathian Basin
surface form: Pannonian Basin
hasTypeOfEvidence comparative reconstruction
isogloss patterns in South Slavic
hasUncertainty exact geographic boundaries
internal dialectal subdivision
inferredFrom shared innovations of South Slavic languages
influenced development of Old Church Slavonic dialect base
languageBranch Balto-Slavic languages
surface form: Balto-Slavic
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European
languageGroup South Slavic languages
surface form: South Slavic
languageSubbranch Slavic languages
surface form: Slavic
notAttestedIn contemporary written sources
partOf Slavic languages
reconstructedBy historical linguistics
reconstructedFrom comparative evidence of South Slavic languages
status hypothetical
reconstructed
studiedBy Slavic historical linguists
subclassOf Common Slavic
timePeriod 1st millennium AD
early Middle Ages
underlies Bulgarian language
surface form: Bulgarian

Macedonian
Serbo-Croatian
Slovene
South Slavic languages
Torlakian dialects
surface form: Torlak dialects

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Common Slavic hasSubdivision Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area)
West Proto-Slavic dialects contrastedWith Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area)
this entity surface form: South Proto-Slavic dialects
Northern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area) contrastedWith Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area)
subject surface form: Northern Common Slavic
this entity surface form: Southern Common Slavic
Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area) alsoKnownAs Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area)
this entity surface form: Southern Common Slavic