South Slavic languages comprise one of the three geographical groups of Slavic languages . There are around 30 million speakers of these languages, mainly in the Balkans....
The South Slavs are a southern branch of the Slavic peoples that live in the Balkans mainly throughout the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Geographically, the South Slavs are native to the southern Pannonian Plain, the eastern Alps and the Balkans and they speak South Slavic languages....