West Slavic languages

West Slavic
Geographic
distribution:
Central Europe
Linguistic classification:

Indo-European

Subdivisions:
ISO 639-5: zlw
Glottolog: west2792[1]

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  Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language
Balto-Slavic languages.

The West Slavic languages are a subdivision of the Slavic language group that includes Czech, Polish, Slovak, Kashubian, Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian.

Groups and dialects

Classification according to the traditional model:[2]

Distinctive features

Some distinctive features of the West Slavic languages, as from when they split from the East Slavic and South Slavic branches around the 3rd to 6th centuries AD, are as follows:[3]

The West Slavic languages are all written using Latin script, in contrast to the Cyrillic-using East Slavic branch, and the South Slavic which uses both.

See also

References

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  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "West Slavic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. chapter 12
  3. Zenon Klemensiewicz, Historia języka polskiego, 7th edition, Wydawnictwo naukowe PWN, Warsaw 1999. ISBN 83-01-12760-0
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