Slavic languages

The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.

Detailed list with ISO 639 and SIL codes

The following tree for the Slavic languages derives from the Ethnologue report for Slavic languageshttp://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90673. It includes the SIL, ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 codes where available. ISO 639-2 uses the code sla in a general way for Slavic languages not included in one of the other codes.

Related Topics:
Ethnologue - SIL - ISO 639-1 - ISO 639-2

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East Slavic languages:

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• Belarusian (alternatively Belarusan, Belarussian, Belorussian) - (SIL code: bel; ISO 639-1 code: be; ISO 639-2 code: bel)
• The United States State Department, Ethnologue and the Rosetta Project recognize the form Belarusan.
• Ukrainian - (SIL code: ukr; ISO 639-1 code: uk; ISO 639-2 code: ukr)
• Russian - (SIL code: rus; ISO 639-1 code: ru; ISO 639-2 code, rus)
• Rusyn - (SIL code: rue; ISO 639-2 code: sla)

West Slavic languages:

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• Sorbian section (also known as Wendish) - ISO 639-2 code: wen
• Lower Sorbian (also known as Lusatian) - (SIL code: dsb; ISO 639-2 code: dsb)
• Upper Sorbian - (SIL code: hsb; ISO 639-2 code: hsb)
• Lechitic section
• Polish - (SIL code: pol; ISO 639-1 code, pl; ISO 639-2 code, pol)
• Pomeranian
• Kashubian - (SIL code: csb; ISO 639-2 code: csb)
• Slovincian - extinct
• Polabian - extinct - (SIL code: pox; ISO 639-2 code: sla)
• Czech-Slovak section
• Czech - (SIL code: ces; ISO 639-1 code: cs; ISO 639-2(B) code, cze; ISO 639-2(T) code: ces)
• Knaanic or Judeo Slavic - extinct - (SIL code: czk; ISO 639-2 code: sla)
• Slovak - (SIL code: slk; ISO 639-1 code: sk; ISO 639-2(B) code: slo; ISO 639-2(T) code: slk)

South Slavic languages:

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• Western Section
• Slovenian - (SIL code: slv; ISO 639-1 code: sl; ISO 639-2 code: slv)
• Croatian (SIL code: hrv; ISO 639-1 code: hr; ISO 639-2/3 code: hrv)
• Bosnian (SIL code: bos; ISO 639-1 code: bs; ISO 639-2/3 code: bos)
• Serbian (SIL code: srp; ISO 639-1 code: sr; ISO 639-2/3 code: srp)
• Eastern Section
• Macedonian - (SIL code: mkd; ISO 639-1 code: mk; ISO 639-2(B) code: mac; ISO 639-2(T) code: mkd)
• Bulgarian - (SIL code: bul; ISO 639-1 code: bg; ISO 639-2 code: bul)
• Old Church Slavonic - extinct (SIL code: chu; ISO 639-1 code: cu; ISO 639-2 code: chu)

Note that Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian previously formed a unitary Serbo-Croatian (SIL 14th ed. code: SRC; ISO 639-1 code: sh; ISO 639-2(B) codes: scr and scc). See also: Differences in official languages in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia.

Related Topics:
Serbo-Croatian - Differences in official languages in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia

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Transitional

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• Church Slavonic language, derived from Old Church Slavonic, but with significant replacement of the original vocabulary by forms from the Old Russian language and other regional forms. The Russian Orthodox Church and Serbian Orthodox Church continue to use Church Slavonic as a liturgical language. While not used in modern times, the text of a Church Slavonic mass survives in the Czech Republic, which is best known through Janacek's musical setting of it (the Glagolitic Mass).

A planned language called Slovio also exists: constructed on the basis of Slavic languages, and intended to facilitate intercommunication between people each of whom already speak at least one Slavic language.

Related Topics:
Planned language - Slovio

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