South Slavic languages

E47209
branch of the Slavic languages language group

South Slavic languages are a branch of the Slavic language family spoken primarily in the Balkans, including languages such as Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian.

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All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
South Slavic languages canonical 30
South Slavic 3
Eastern South Slavic languages 2

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of the Slavic languages ⓘ
language group ⓘ
arealContactWith Albanian language ⓘ
Greek language ⓘ
Romance languages of the Balkans ⓘ
Turkic languages of the Balkans ⓘ
arealFeature Balkan Sprachbund ⓘ
feature aspectual verb system ⓘ
clitic doubling in some languages ⓘ
complex verbal morphology ⓘ
grammatical gender ⓘ
loss of case inflection in Bulgarian and Macedonian ⓘ
rich case system (reduced in some languages) ⓘ
three-way deictic distinction in demonstratives in some languages ⓘ
use of definite articles in Eastern South Slavic ⓘ
geographicDistribution Balkans ⓘ
Balkans ⓘ
surface form: Southeastern Europe
hasSubgroup Eastern South Slavic languages ⓘ
Western South Slavic languages ⓘ
historicalDevelopment diverged from Common Slavic in the early medieval period ⓘ
includesLanguage Bosnian ⓘ
surface form: Bosnian language

Bulgarian language ⓘ
Croatian ⓘ
surface form: Croatian language

Macedonian language ⓘ
Montenegrin language ⓘ
Serbian language ⓘ
Slovene language ⓘ
ISO639Grouping sla (Slavic languages) ⓘ
linguisticAncestor Proto-Slavic language ⓘ
linguisticFamily Balto-Slavic languages ⓘ
neighboringLanguageGroups East Slavic languages ⓘ
West Slavic languages ⓘ
partOf Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages
standardVarietiesBasedOn Central Macedonian dialects ⓘ
Central Slovene dialects ⓘ
Eastern Bulgarian dialects ⓘ
Štokavian dialect (for Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin) ⓘ
subclassOf Slavic languages ⓘ
typology fusional language type ⓘ
usedIn Bosnia and Herzegovina ⓘ
Bulgaria ⓘ
Croatia ⓘ
Montenegro ⓘ
North Macedonia ⓘ
Serbia ⓘ
Slovenia ⓘ
parts of Austria ⓘ
parts of Italy ⓘ
parts of Romania ⓘ
writingSystem Cyrillic script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (41)

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

Eastern Europe → includesLanguageGroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Google Translate → availableLanguage → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Serbian
Slavic languages → hasSubdivision → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Slavic languages → includeLanguage → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Montenegrin language
Serbs → languageFamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Slovenia → nationalLanguageFamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Balto-Slavic languages → hasSubbranch → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Slovene → subfamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Croatian → subfamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Croatian → partOfDiasystem → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Central South Slavic diasystem
Croats → languageFamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Bosniaks → languageFamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
East Slavic languages → comparedWith → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Federal State of Croatia → languageGroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
South Slavs → languageFamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Bulgarian language → languageSubgroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Bulgarian language → languageSubgroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eastern South Slavic languages
Macedonian → languageFamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Bosnian → subfamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
West Slavic languages → sharesAncestorWith → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Serbian language → branch → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Macedonians → languageFamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Ružić → hasEthnolinguisticOrigin → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: South Slavic
Kajkavian dialect → languageGroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Upper Carniolan dialect → languageGroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Western South Slavic languages
Rovte dialect group → belongsTo → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Carinthian dialect group → linguisticClassification → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Western South Slavic languages
Gaj's Latin alphabet → region → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Gaj's Latin alphabet → languageFamilyContext → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: South Slavic
Montenegrin → languageSubfamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Ante → usedInRegion → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: South Slavic countries
Central Slovene dialects → languageBranch → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Middle Bulgarian → languageSubgroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Middle Bulgarian → languageSubgroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eastern South Slavic languages
Eastern Bulgarian dialects → languageGroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Torlakian dialects → languageSubbranch → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Shtokavian dialect → linguisticSubbranch → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area) → languageGroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: South Slavic
Gavrilo → isAssociatedWithLanguageFamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Bunjevac → hasLanguageFamily → South Slavic languages ⓘ
Montenegro and Serbia → sharedLanguageGroup → South Slavic languages ⓘ