Slavic languages: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
imported>Domergue Sumien No edit summary |
imported>Ro Thorpe mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 22: | Line 22: | ||
** [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] (closely connected with Bulgarian; [[Old Church Slavonic]] is an archaic variety of Macedonian). | ** [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] (closely connected with Bulgarian; [[Old Church Slavonic]] is an archaic variety of Macedonian). | ||
Slavic languages are written either in the [[Latin alphabet]] or in the [[Cyrillic alphabet]]. Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Macedonian use the Cyrillic script. Serbian and Belarussian use the Cyrillic or the Latin script. The other languages use the | Slavic languages are written either in the [[Latin alphabet]] or in the [[Cyrillic alphabet]]. Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Macedonian use the Cyrillic script. Serbian and Belarussian use the Cyrillic or the Latin script. The other languages use the Latin script. | ||
Revision as of 19:15, 30 January 2009
The Slavic or Slavonic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in eastern Europe and Siberia. They are closely connected with the Baltic languages in the Balto-Slavic group.
The usual classification is the following.
- East Slavic
- West Slavic
- South Slavic
- Slovenian
- Croatian (part of the Serbo-Croatian diasystem)
- Bosnian (part of the Serbo-Croatian diasystem)
- Serbian (part of the Serbo-Croatian diasystem)
- Bulgarian
- Macedonian (closely connected with Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic is an archaic variety of Macedonian).
Slavic languages are written either in the Latin alphabet or in the Cyrillic alphabet. Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Macedonian use the Cyrillic script. Serbian and Belarussian use the Cyrillic or the Latin script. The other languages use the Latin script.