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The West Slavic languages is a subdivision of the Slavic language group
Slavic languages

File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely






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The West Slavic languages is a subdivision of the Slavic language group
Slavic languages

File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia....
 that includes Czech
Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czech people worldwide....
, Polish
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
, Slovak
Slovak language

The Slovak language , sometimes incorrectly called ?Slovakian?, is an Indo-European languages that belongs to the West Slavic languages .The Czech and Slovak languages are Mutual intelligibility which means that even after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia Czech may be used in all official proceedings and documents in Slovakia, and vice ver...
, and Sorbian.

Classification:

  • Indo-European
    Indo-European languages

    The Indo-European languages are a Language family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau , Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent ....
    • Balto-Slavic
      Balto-Slavic languages

      The Balto-Slavic language group consists of the Baltic languages and Slavic languages, belonging to the Indo-European languages of languages. Having experienced a period of common development, Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European branch, which points to their close genetic relationsh...
      • Slavic
        Slavic languages

        File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia....
        • West Slavic
          West Slavic languages

          The West Slavic languages is a subdivision of the Slavic languages that includes Czech language, Polish language, Slovak language, and Sorbian language....
          • Czech-Slovak
            • Czech
              Czech language

              Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czech people worldwide....
            • Slovak
              Slovak language

              The Slovak language , sometimes incorrectly called ?Slovakian?, is an Indo-European languages that belongs to the West Slavic languages .The Czech and Slovak languages are Mutual intelligibility which means that even after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia Czech may be used in all official proceedings and documents in Slovakia, and vice ver...
            • Pannonian Rusyn
              Pannonian Rusyn language

              Pannonian Rusyn or simply Rusyn is a Slavic languages language or dialect spoken in north-western Serbia and eastern Croatia . It is similar to West Slavic languages, , but has Eastern Slavic languages phonetics and vocabulary....
               (alternatively also considered an East Slavic Language
              East Slavic languages

              The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of Slavic languages, currently spoken in Eastern Europe. It is the group with the largest numbers of speakers, far out-numbering the West Slavic languages and South Slavic languages groups....
              , a dialect of Ukrainian language
              Ukrainian language

              Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
              , or an intermediate dialect between the Western dialects of the Ukrainian and the Eastern dialects of the Slovak language
              Slovak language

              The Slovak language , sometimes incorrectly called ?Slovakian?, is an Indo-European languages that belongs to the West Slavic languages .The Czech and Slovak languages are Mutual intelligibility which means that even after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia Czech may be used in all official proceedings and documents in Slovakia, and vice ver...
              )
          • Lechitic
            Lechitic languages

            The Lechitic languages include three languages spoken in Central Europe, mainly in Poland, and historically also in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, and Vorpommern, in the north-eastern region of modern Germany....
            • Polish
              Polish language

              Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
            • Pomeranian
              Pomeranian language

              Pomeranian is a group of Lechitic languages dialects which were spoken in the Middle Ages on the territory of Pomerania. They are most closely related to Polabian language dialects, which they bordered in the west, and to Polish language dialects, which they bordered in the south....
              • Kashubian
                Kashubian language

                Kashubian or Cassubian is one of the Lechitic languages, a subgroup of the Slavic languages.Kashubian is assumed to have evolved from the language spoken by some tribes of Pomeranians called Kashubians, in the region of Pomerania, on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder River rivers....
              • Slovincian
            • Polabian
              Polabian language

              The Polabian language is an extinct language West Slavic languages language that was spoken by the Slavs of North-Eastern Germany around the river Elbe ....
            • Silesian
          • Sorbian
            Sorbian languages

            The Sorbian languages are classified under the West Slavic languages branch of the Indo-European languages. They are the native languages of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority in eastern Germany....
            • Upper Sorbian
            • Lower Sorbian