slavic languages
111Turkic languages — Family of more than 20 Altaic languages spoken by some 135 million people from the Balkans to central Siberia. The traditional division of Turkic is into four groups. The southeastern or Uighur group comprises Uighur, spoken mainly in Xinjiang,… …
112Celtic languages — Branch of the Indo European language family spoken across a broad area of western and central Europe by the Celts in pre Roman and Roman times, now confined to small coastal areas of northwestern Europe. Celtic can be divided into a continental… …
113Baltic-Finnic languages — Infobox Language family name=Baltic Finnic region=Northern Fennoscandia, Baltic states, Southwestern and Southeastern Russia familycolor=Uralic fam1=Uralic fam2=Finno Ugric fam3=Finno Permic fam4=Finno Volgaic fam5=Finno Lappic child1=Estonian… …
114Finno-Ugric languages — Branch of the Uralic language family spoken by about 25 million people in northeastern Europe, northern Asia, and (through immigration) North America. More than 20 million are accounted for by two languages, Finnish and Hungarian. The Ugric… …
115Illyrian languages — language name=Illyrian familycolor=Indo European states=Once Illyria and some lands adjacent region=Western Balkans extinct=It is disputed whether the Illyrian languages can be considered extinct. Those who favor the extinction scenario estimate… …
116Balto-Slavic — noun a family of Indo European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages • Syn: ↑Balto Slavic language, ↑Balto Slavonic • Hypernyms: ↑Indo European, ↑Indo European language, ↑Indo Hittite • Hyponyms: ↑ …
117Balto-Slavic language — noun a family of Indo European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages • Syn: ↑Balto Slavic, ↑Balto Slavonic • Hypernyms: ↑Indo European, ↑Indo European language, ↑Indo Hittite • Hyponyms: ↑ …
118South Slavic dialect continuum — The South Slavic dialect continuum covers the languages spoken from Slovenia to northern Greece. It extends west as far as the Black Sea and east as far as Albania. The standard languages in this continuum are: Slovenian, Serbian, Bosnian,… …
119Pre-Christian Slavic writing — There is some evidence that the early Slavs may have used a writing system or a form of proto writing prior to the introduction of Christianity and of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets in the mid 9th century. But there is no extant evidence… …
120Iranian languages — This article is about the Iranian languages. For languages spoken in Iran, see Languages of Iran. For the official language of Iran, see Persian language. Iranian Geographic distribution: Southwest Asia, Central Asia, and western South Asia… …
