Languages Spoken by Slavic Peoples

Slavic languages (Indo-European family) are spoken by ~300M people across Eastern Europe, Balkans, and North Asia. Three branches:

• East Slavic: Russian (145M), Ukrainian (45M), Belarusian.
• West Slavic: Polish (38M), Czech (10M), Slovak, Sorbian.
• South Slavic: Serbian (8M), Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Montenegrin.

Mutual intelligibility varies; Russian is the most widely spoken. All share common roots and grammatical structures.