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Encyclopedia > South Slavic language
This article or section should be merged with List of South Slavic languages

South Slavic languages is one of the three groups of Slavic languages (besides West and East Slavic). There are around 30 million speakers of these languages, mainly in the Balkans. The South Slavic languages are further subdivided into Eastern and Western groups.


Classification of South Slavic languages:

Indo-European languages
Slavic languages (ca. 317 million speakers)
South Slavic languages (ca. 30 million)
Eastern group:
Bulgarian (ca. 9 million)
Macedonian (ca. 2 million)
Old Church Slavonic (ancient language used in traditional liturgy and religious texts)
Western group:
Slovene (ca. 2 million)
Serbo-Croatian (ca. 17 million)
Bosnian (ca. 2 million)
Croatian (ca. 5 million)
Serbian (ca. 10 million)

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The evolution of literary languages in Poland, Bohemia, and Slovakia was stymied by the domination of Latin as the language of worship.
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