Serbian Language (српски језик / srpski jezik) Overview Serbian (Serbian: српски језик, srpski jezik) is a South Slavic language belonging to the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and among Serbian diaspora communities across the world. Serbian is one of the standardized varieties of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian […]
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Slovak Language Slovak language (slovenský jazyk) is a West Slavic language belonging to the Indo-European language family. It is the official language of Slovakia and one of the official languages of the European Union. Closely related to Czech and Polish, Slovak serves as a central linguistic link between the Western and Eastern branches of the
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Polish Language (język polski) Language Family and ClassificationPolish is a West Slavic language belonging to the larger Indo-European language family. Within the Slavic branch, it is part of the Lechitic subgroup, which also includes Kashubian, Silesian (considered by some linguists a separate language and by others a dialect of Polish), and the now extinct Polabian
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The East Slavic Language Family: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn The East Slavic language family forms one of the three major branches of the Slavic languages, alongside West Slavic and South Slavic.Spoken across the vast lands of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, the East Slavic languages — Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn — share a
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Rusyn Rusyn (Rusyn: русиньскый язык, русиньска бесїда / руски язик in some varieties) is an East Slavic language (or — depending on scholarly and political views — a cluster of closely related East Slavic lects) traditionally spoken by the Rusyn (Carpatho-Rusyn) peoples of the Carpathian borderlands and in several diaspora communities. It is written primarily
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Ukrainian language Overview Ukrainian (українська мова, uk) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European family. It is the official state language of Ukraine and the native language of the majority of the population there. As a living Slavic language, Ukrainian sits in the East Slavic branch alongside Russian and Belarusian; historically it descends from
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Javanese Language Language Family and ClassificationJavanese (ꦧꦱꦗꦮ, basa Jawa) is a member of the Austronesian language family, one of the world’s largest and most widely distributed linguistic families. Within this family, it belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch, specifically to the Western Malayo-Polynesian group and further to the Javanic subgroup. Closely related languages include Sundanese, Madurese,
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Persian Language (Fārsī / فارسی) Classification and Language Family The Persian language—known endonymically as Fārsī (فارسی) in Iran, Dari (دری) in Afghanistan, and Tajik (Тоҷикӣ) in Tajikistan—is a member of the Indo-European language family, within the Indo-Iranian branch, and specifically the Iranian group of languages. Within the Iranian languages, Persian belongs to the Southwestern Iranian
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Korean Language (한국어 / 조선말) The Korean language is the official and national language of both the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), and it is also one of the two official languages of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China. It is spoken by approximately 80 million
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Urdu Language Overview Urdu (اُردُو, Urdū) is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European language family, specifically the Indo-Iranian branch and the Central Zone (Hindi–Urdu) subgroup of the Indo-Aryan languages. It is one of the two official languages of Pakistan (alongside English) and is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India, where it
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