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The history of the Slavic languages stretches over 3000 years, from the point at which the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language broke up (c. 1500 BC)...

The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They...

The Proto-Slavic language, the hypothetical ancestor of the modern-day Slavic languages, developed from the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language (c....

The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and...

The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages. East...

The West Slavic languages are a subdivision of the Slavic language group. They include Polish, Czech, Slovak, Kashubian, Silesian, Upper Sorbian and Lower...

motivated by the belief that all Slavic languages were dialects of one single Slavic language rather than separate languages. They deplored the fact that...

Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages....

The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These...

reconstructed common ancestor of all Slavic languages. The name of the language in Old Church Slavonic texts was simply Slavic (словѣ́ньскъ ѩꙁꙑ́къ, slověnĭskŭ...

The term North Slavic languages is used in three main senses: for a number of proposed groupings or subdivisions of the Slavic languages. However, "North...

writing Slavic mythology Slavic studies History of the Slavic languages Balto-Slavic languages, Slavic languages, East Slavic languages, South Slavic languages...

Proto-Balto-Slavic, the later Balto-Slavic languages are thought to have developed, composed of the Baltic and Slavic sub-branches, and including modern...

reflexes in the modern languages, for assistance in understanding the discussion in Proto-Slavic and History of the Slavic languages. The word list is...

precisely to the north of the Jiriček Line Proto-Slavic—the root from which the modern Slavic languages developed—emerged during the first half of the 2nd millennium...

The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia;...

printing of monuments of Slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. At this time the majority of Slavic languages received...

Slavic is used in reference to the modern family of East Slavic languages. However, it is not universally applied. The language is also traditionally known...

South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch...

Baltic languages, while absorbing elements of the former. South Slavic languages spread throughout the Balkans, replacing the languages of the Romanized...