Common Slavic

E74204

Common Slavic is the reconstructed ancestral language from which all modern Slavic languages are derived.

Jump to: Statements Referenced by

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Slavic language
proto-language
reconstructed language
alternativeName Proto-Slavic language
surface form: Proto Slavic

Proto-Slavic language
surface form: Proto-Slavic
ancestorOf Belarusian language
Bulgarian language
Czech language
East Slavic languages
Macedonian
surface form: Macedonian language

Church Slavonic
surface form: Old Church Slavonic

Polish language
Russian language
Serbo-Croatian
surface form: Serbo-Croatian language

Slavic languages
Slovak language
Slovene language
South Slavic languages
Ukrainian language
West Slavic languages
attestation unattested
branch Slavic
developedFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic language
surface form: Proto-Balto-Slavic

Proto-Indo-European
hasFeature aspectual verb system
case system
grammatical gender system
palatalization processes
pitch accent in some dialectal reconstructions
rich inflectional morphology
hasReconstructionStandard Lehr-Spławiński school of reconstruction
Moscow school of reconstruction
hasSubdivision Northern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area)
Southern Common Slavic (hypothesized dialect area)
influenced development of modern Slavic morphology
development of modern Slavic phonology
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European
partOf Balto-Slavic
Indo-European language family
reconstructedFrom comparative method
evidence from Slavic languages
internal reconstruction
loanwords in neighboring languages
studiedIn Slavic linguistics
historical linguistics
subfamilyOf Balto-Slavic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
timePeriod diversification roughly between 5th and 10th centuries CE
spoken in the first millennium CE
writingSystem no direct attested writing system

Referenced by (4)

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

Proto-Slavic language alsoKnownAs Common Slavic
Slovene ancestor Common Slavic
Slavic languages developedFrom Common Slavic
Old East Slavic hasAncestor Common Slavic