List of Balto-Slavic languages

Balto-Slavic distribution

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

Baltic Languages

• Latvian, 1.75 million speakers (2015)
• Lithuanian, 3 million speakers (2012)

West Slavic languages

• Polish, 55 million speakers (2010)
• Czech, 10.6 million speakers (2012)
• Slovak, 5.2 million speakers (2011–12)
• Silesian,^[a] 510,000 speakers (2011)
• Sorbian, ca. 50,000 speakers (est.)
• Kashubian,^[a] 108,000 speakers (2011)

South Slavic languages

• Serbian, 9.2–10.7 million speakers (est.)
• Bulgarian, 9 million (2005–12)
• Croatian, 5.6 million speakers (2006)
• Bosnian, 2.5–3.5 million speakers (2008)
• Slovene, 2.5 million speakers (2010)
• Macedonian, 1.4–2.5 million speakers (1986–2011)
• Church Slavonic (liturgical)

East Slavic languages

• Russian, 150 million speakers (2010), 260 million including L2 (2012)
• Ukrainian, 30 million speakers (2007)
• Belorussian, 3.2 million speakers (2009)
• Rusyn^[a]

Extinct languages

• Proto-Balto-Slavic language

Slavic

• Proto-Slavic
• Old Church Slavonic, liturgical
• Knaanic, Jewish language
• Old West Slavic, developed into modern West Slavic languages
• Old Novgorod
• Old East Slavic, developed into modern East Slavic languages
• Old Ruthenian

Baltic

• Curonian
• Old Prussian
• Galindan
• Selonian
• Semigallian
• Sudovian

Annotations

1. ^ Alternatively considered a dialect.

References

External links

• "Slavic languages". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2016-05-21.