South Slavic languages

South Slavic
Geographic
distribution		Southeast Europe
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Subdivisions
Language codes
ISO 639-5zls
Glottologsout3147
  Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language
and dialects
Western South Slavic
  • Dialects
  • Shtokavian
    • (Younger Ikavian
      • Bunjevac
    • Slavonian
      • Šokac
    • Dubrovnik
    • Eastern Herzegovinian
      • Užice
    • Zeta–Raška
    • Kosovo–Resava (Smederevo–Vršac)
    • Šumadija–Vojvodina
    • Prizren–Timok (Prizren–South Morava
      • Gorani
      • Janjevo–Letnica
    • Svrljig–Zaplanje
    • Timok–Lužnica))
  • Chakavian
    • (Burgenland
    • Molise)
  • Kajkavian
  • Torlakian
    • (Prizren–South Morava
      • Gorani
      • Janjevo–Letnica
    • Svrljig–Zaplanje
    • Timok–Lužnica)
  • Comparison of standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian
  • Slovene
  • Dialects
    • (Prekmurje Slovene
    • Resian)
Eastern South Slavic
  • Church Slavonic (Old)
  • Macedonian
  • Dialects
    • (Western
    • Southeastern
    • Northern
    • Torlakian)
  • Spoken Macedonian
  • Standard Macedonian
Transitional dialects
  • Serbian–Bulgarian–Macedonian
  • Transitional Bulgarian dialects
    • Torlakian
    • Gorani
  • Croatian–Slovenian
  • Kajkavian
  • Bulgarian–Macedonian
  • Slavic dialects of Greece
Alphabets
a Includes Banat Bulgarian alphabet.

The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These are separated geographically from speakers of the other two Slavic branches (West and East) by a belt of Austrian German, Hungarian and Romanian speakers.

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