SLAVIC LANGUAGE

The Slavic language family is the group of languages and idioms spoken since ever by the Slavs people, divided in three strands: the eastern group, essentially spoken in the Sarmatian plain, while the western group spreaded in central-eastern Europe and the southern group is most present in the Balkanic area. These Slavic language groups are strictly connected to the history of European integration, part of the indoeuropeans language families (P.I.E.) and included into the Satem P.I.E. family with the Baltic languages and the Armenian, they are extended all along the Eastern Europe area where are mixed with the Finno-Ugric languages, so representing a consistent quote of all European languages and sharing the traditional culture and mythology of Europeans, they will have an important role in the future of Europe.

The eastern slavic languages have in common a 33 letters cyrillic alphabet evoluted from the Glagolitic code originated by the Greek thanks to the opera of the saints byzantine monks Cyrill&Methodius in IX century AD when translating the Bible. These idioms are: the Russian originating since the XI century AD in the Kievan Rus' state (then related to the vikings) and firstly attested in XIII century AD Old Ortodoxy Church documents, nowadays is spoken by the Russians people and official language in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, UzbekiStan, Abkhazia, Ossetia and the United Nations agencies, also highly speaded in Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and China; the Belarusian, official language in Belarus and Poland, also a minorance idiom in Czech Republic and Ukraine, classified in 1922 AD; the Ukraine official language firstly attested in a 1387 AD Old Ortodoxy Church document, also spoken in Belarus and Russia with a large presence in the european states of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.

The Western slavic languages are coded with a 32 letters latin alphabet, adopted from IX century in Great Moravia during the christianization epoch, divided in: Polish, official language in Poland and in European Union, wide spreaded in Lithuania, Bohemia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine thanks to the Poland-Lithuan-Krone but attested primarily in the acts of king Mietzko I; the Czech language official of the Czech Republic and the UE but spreaded all around in states of Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovakia, Croatia and Poland cause of the Habsburg dinasty dominions starting from the XIV century AD when the Bible was translated; the Slovak language, that is official in Slovakia and the UE and also in the Vojvodina region, but spoken widely in Czech Republic, Romania, Poland and Hungary, firstly attested in XIX century AD; the Sorbian language still survived with the Sorbs tribe, quite all living in Germany since the Middle Age.

The Southern slavic languages originated from the Old Church Slavonic (OSC), used since IX century AD until 1652 within the Byzantine Empire area and adopting the 32 letters cyrillic alphabet when traslated the Bible. These languages are: the Bulgarian, official language in Bulgaria and in European Union, also spreade in Albania, Serbia, Romania and Ukraine states (even in Turkey) since XII century when the II Bulgar empire reached its maximum expansion; the official language of the North Macedonia but also spoken in Albania, Serbia and Romania, attested since XVIII century AD; the Serbo-Croatian language used in the ex-Jugoslavia state and now official after its dissolution in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and in the UE of course, spreaded also in the sorrounding states of Austria, Hungary, Italy, Bohemia, Slovakia and Romania, probably since ever and firstly attested in XI century tablets; in the end, the Slovean language, adopting the latin alphabet and official language in Slovenia and the UE, but spreaded since ever in Austria, Hungary and Italy within Reich Empire, when it had been used dor the first time in the "Freisung manoscript" in 972 AD.

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