List of Balto-Slavic languages
These are the Balto-Slavic languages categorized by sub-groups, including number of speakers.
Balto-Slavic distribution
Baltic languages
- Latvian, 1.75 million speakers (2015)
- Latgalian, 200 000 speakers (2009)[lower-alpha 1]
- Lithuanian, 3 million speakers (2012)
West Slavic languages
South Slavic languages
- 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
- Russian, 150 million speakers (2010), 260 million including L2 (2012)
- Ukrainian, 45 million speakers (2007)
- Belarusian, 3.2 million speakers (2009)
- Rusyn[lower-alpha 3]
Extinct languages
- 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
Notes
- Alternatively considered a dialect of Latvian.
- Alternatively considered a dialect of Polish or Pomeranian.
- Alternatively considered a dialect of Ukrainian.
External links
- "Slavic languages". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
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