The Slavic languages deriving from the early Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe.
The Slavic languages are the Indo-European languages spoken by the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe. They are spoken by 315 million people in the world. Their history stretches over 3000 years, the first 2000 being the period when the language remained unified without dialectal differences. By around 1000 AD there was a break up of the Slavic language into three main branches : East Slavic, West Slavic and South Slavic.
Each branch of the Slavic languages originally developed from Proto-Slavic, the ancestral parent language of the group spoken during Early Middle Ages, which itself developed from the Proto-Baltic language.
Some examples of the Slavic languages are: Polish, Russian, Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovak, Slovene and Croatian.
