Slavonic Language (Noun)
Meaning
A branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Polish language is a member of the West Slavonic languages and is closely related to Czech and Slovak.
- Old Church Slavonic was used as a liturgical language by the Orthodox Church.
- The Bulgarian language is a South Slavonic language and is mutually intelligible with Macedonian.
- Slavonic languages are widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
- Russian is the most widely spoken East Slavonic language and has more than 150 million native speakers.