West Slavic languages

E73489
branch of Slavic languages language group

West Slavic languages are a branch of the Slavic language family that includes Polish, Czech, Slovak, and related languages spoken primarily in Central Europe.

Aliases (1)
Statements (50)
Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Slavic languages →
language group →
areLessMutuallyIntelligibleWith East Slavic languages →
areMutuallyIntelligibleToDegree Czech and Slovak →
geographicDistribution Austria →
Central Europe →
Czech Republic →
Eastern Germany →
Hungary →
Lithuania →
Poland →
Slovakia →
Ukraine →
hasFeature aspectual verb system →
case system →
consonant clusters →
grammatical gender →
palatalization contrasts →
rich inflectional morphology →
hasMajorLanguageBySpeakers Czech language →
Polish language →
Slovak language →
hasMorphologicalFeature seven-case system in many languages →
hasPhonologicalFeature fixed stress in some languages →
mobile or variable stress in some languages →
hasStandardLanguage Standard Czech →
Standard Polish →
Standard Slovak →
hasSubgroup Czech–Slovak languages →
Lechitic languages →
Sorbian languages →
hasSyntacticFeature relatively free word order →
historicalAncestor Proto-Slavic language →
includesLanguage Czech language →
Czech–Slovak dialect continuum →
Kashubian language →
Lower Sorbian language →
Polabian language →
Polish language →
Silesian language →
Slovak language →
Upper Sorbian language →
ISO639-5Code zlw →
linguisticClassification Balto-Slavic branch of Indo-European →
partOf Indo-European languages →
sharesAncestorWith East Slavic languages →
South Slavic languages →
subclassOf Slavic languages →
typology fusional language →
writingSystem Latin script →
Referenced by (8)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Mazovians →
Slovak language →
Sorbian languages ("West Slavic") →
languageFamily
East Slavic languages →
comparedWith
Silesian language →
hasLanguageGroup
Slavic languages →
hasSubdivision
South Slavic languages →
neighboringLanguageGroups
Czech language →
subgroup
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