Eastern European Languages

The peoples of Eastern Europe mostly speak Slavic and Baltic languages, which form two distinct branches of the great Indo-European family of languages.

There are eleven modern Slavic languages:

• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Belorussian
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Bulgarian
• Serbo-Croat
• Slovenian
• Macedonian
• Sorbian (Lusatian)

Please note that links are only included for some of the specific languages above because these are most in demand at the present time. Further language pages will be added in the future.

These languages are spoken by a total of about 300 million people.

There are two Baltic languages:

• Lithuanian
• Latvian

They are among the most closely related to the ancient Indo-European language that has long died out but which formed the basis for most other European and Indian languages. These languages are spoken by around 6.5 million people.

Though Estonia is usually mentioned alongside the other Baltic countries, the Estonian language is not related to the others, being closer to both Finnish and Hungarian linguistically.

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