South Slavic languages

South Slavic languages is one of the three groups of Slavic languages (besides West and East Slavic). There are around 28 millions speakers of these languages, mainly on the Balkans. South Slavic languages are further divided in Eastern and Western section.

Classification of South Slavic languages:

Indo-European languages

Slavic languages (cca. 317 mio speakers)

South Slavic languages (ca. 29 mio)

Eastern Section

Bulgarian (ca. 8.5 mio)

Macedonian (ca. 1.8 mio)

Old Church Slavonic (ancient language, used in traditional liturgy and religious texts)

Western Section

Slovene (ca. 2 mio)

Serbo-Croatian (ca. 17 mio)

Bosnian (ca. 2 mio)

Croatian (ca. 5 mio)

Serbian (ca. 10 mio)