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.

Hungarian and Romanian now separate the South Slavic languages from West and East Slavic languages.

Classification:

• Indo-European languages
  • Satem
    • Balto-Slavic
      • Slavic languages
        • South Slavic languages
          • West
            • Serbo-Croatian*
              • Serbian language
              • Bosnian language
              • Croatian language
            • Slovene language
          • East
            • Bulgarian language
            • Macedonian language
            • Old Church Slavonic (ancient language used in traditional liturgy and religious texts)

• Note that Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian are still sometimes grouped as Serbo-Croatian.