List of Balto-Slavic languages

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

Baltic languages

• Latvian, 1.75 million speakers (2015)
• Latgalian, 164,000 speakers (2021)
• Lithuanian, 3 million speakers (2012)

West Slavic languages

• Polish, 55 million speakers (2010)
• Kashubian
• Czech, 10.6 million speakers (2012)
• Slovak, 5.2 million speakers (2011–12)
• Sorbian, ca. 50,000 speakers ()

South Slavic languages

• Serbo-Croatian, 21 million speakers (), 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

Extinct languages

• 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

• Proto-Baltic
• Curonian
• Old Prussian
• Selonian
• Semigallian
• Sudovian
• Dnieper-Oka
• Golyad
• Pomeranian Baltic
• West Galindian

See also

• Outline of Slavic history and culture
• List of Slavic studies journals

Notes

References

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