Slavic
subfamily of Indo-European languages
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Summary
Slavic is a language group[1]. Slavic ranks in the top 2% of language group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,575 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: language family[3]
- Subclass of: Balto-Slavic[4], Indo-European[5]
- Writing system: Glagolitic[6]
- Commons category: Slavic languages[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Slavic languages[8]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 315,000,000[9]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], The Encyclopedia Americana[14], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[15]
- Topic has template: Template:Slavic languages[16]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/slavic-languages[17], https://russian.stackexchange.com/tags/slavic[18]
- Different from: Church Slavonic[19]
- Indigenous to: Slavs[20]
- Studied by: Slavic studies[21]
- Culture: Slavic culture[22]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SLA[23]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24]
Why It Matters
Slavic has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Slavic is known by 123 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]