Indo-European family

Proto-South Slavic

c. 600 CE – 900 CE Reconstructed

Proto-South Slavic (c. 600 CE – 900 CE) is a reconstructed Indo-European language. It has 7 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Slavic → Proto-South Slavic.

See Proto-South Slavic on the interactive map

Late Proto-Slavic dialects of the Balkans, ancestral to the South Slavic languages. Splits into an eastern (Bulgarian–Macedonian) and a western (Slovene–Serbo-Croatian) group.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 200 BCE – 600 CE
  3. Proto-South Slavicc. 600 CE – 900 CE

Descendants 3

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-Slavic.

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