South Slavic languages
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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.
Aliases (4)
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
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Southeastern Europe → |
| hasSubgroup |
Eastern South Slavic languages
→
Western South Slavic languages → |
| historicalDevelopment |
diverged from Common Slavic in the early medieval period
→
|
| includesLanguage |
Bosnian language
→
Bulgarian language → 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 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 (22)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Bosniaks
→
Croats → Macedonian → Macedonians → Serbs → South Slavs → |
languageFamily |
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Bosnian
→
Croatian → Slovene → |
subfamily |
|
Bulgarian language
→
Bulgarian language ("Eastern South Slavic languages") → |
languageSubgroup |
|
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("Serbian")
→
|
availableLanguage |
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Serbian language
→
|
branch |
|
East Slavic languages
→
|
comparedWith |
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Balto-Slavic languages
→
|
hasSubbranch |
|
Slavic languages
→
|
hasSubdivision |
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Slavic languages
("Montenegrin language")
→
|
includeLanguage |
|
Eastern Europe
→
|
includesLanguageGroup |
|
Federal State of Croatia
→
|
languageGroup |
|
Slovenia
→
|
nationalLanguageFamily |
|
Croatian
("Central South Slavic diasystem")
→
|
partOfDiasystem |
|
West Slavic languages
→
|
sharesAncestorWith |