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List of Balto-Slavic languages

Summary

These are the Balto-Slavic languages categorized by sub-groups, including number of speakers.

Balto-Slavic distribution

Baltic languages edit

Latvian, 1.75 million speakers (2015)
Latgalian, 200 000 speakers (2009)^[a]
Lithuanian, 3 million speakers (2012)

West Slavic languages edit

Polish, 55 million speakers (2010)
Kashubian^[b]
Czech, 10.6 million speakers (2012)
Slovak, 5.2 million speakers (2011–12)
Sorbian, ca. 50,000 speakers (est.)

South Slavic languages edit

Serbo-Croatian, 21 million speakers (est.), including second language speakers
- Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin standards with dialectal differences
Bulgarian, 9 million (2005–12)
Slovene, 2.5 million speakers (2010)
Macedonian, 1.4–3.5 million speakers (1986–2011)
Church Slavonic (liturgical)

East Slavic languages edit

Russian, 150 million speakers (2010), 260 million including L2 (2012)
Ukrainian, 45 million speakers (2007)
Belarusian, 3.2 million speakers (2009)
Rusyn^[c]

Extinct languages edit

Proto-Balto-Slavic language

Slavic

Proto-Slavic
Old Church Slavonic, liturgical
Knaanic, Jewish language
Old Novgorod dialect
Old East Slavic, developed into modern East Slavic languages
Old Ruthenian
Polabian language
Pomeranian language, only Kashubian remains as a living dialect
South Slavic dialects used in medieval Greece

Baltic

See also edit

Notes edit

^ Alternatively considered a dialect of Latvian.
^ Alternatively considered a dialect of Polish or Pomeranian.
^ Alternatively considered a dialect of Ukrainian.

External links edit

"Slavic languages". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2016-05-21.