Slavic Languages - Detailed List With ISO 639 Codes

Detailed List With ISO 639 Codes

The following tree for the Slavic languages derives from the Ethnologue report for Slavic languages. It includes the ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-3 codes where available.

East Slavic languages:

• Ruthenian section
  • Belarusian (alternatively Belarusan, Belarussian, Belorussian): ISO 639-1 code: be; ISO 639-3 code: bel;
  • Ukrainian: ISO 639-1 code: uk; ISO 639-3 code: ukr
    • Rusyn (a language or a dialect of Ukrainian): ISO 639-3 code: rue;
• Russian: ISO 639-1 code: ru; ISO 639-3 code: rus

West Slavic languages:

• Sorbian section (also known as Wendish): ISO 639-3 code: wen
  • Lower Sorbian (also known as Lusatian): ISO 639-3 code: dsb;
  • Upper Sorbian: ISO 639-3 code: hsb
• Lechitic section
  • Polish: ISO 639-1 code: pl; ISO 639-3 code: pol
  • Pomeranian
    • Kashubian: ISO 639-2 code: csb;
    • Slovincian—extinct
  • Silesian: ISO 639-3 code: szl
  • Polabian—extinct: ISO 639-3 code: pox
• Czech-Slovak section
  • Czech: ISO 639-1 code: cs; ISO 639-3 ces
  • Knaanic or Judeo Slavic—extinct: ISO 639-3 code: czk
  • Slovak: ISO 639-1 code: sk; ISO 639-3 code: slk

South Slavic languages:

• Western Section
  • Bosnian: ISO 639-1 code: bs; ISO 639-3 code: bos
  • Croatian: ISO 639-1 code: hr; ISO 639-3 code: hrv
  • Serbian: ISO 639-1 code: sr; ISO 639-3 code: srp
  • Slovene: ISO 639-1 code: sl; ISO 639-3 code: slv
  • Montenegrin (not regulated but official in Montenegro)
  • Bunjevac (used in some media in Serbia)

• Eastern Section
  • Bulgarian: ISO 639-1 code: bg; ISO 639-3 code: bul
  • Macedonian: ISO 639-1 code: mk; ISO 639-3 code: mkd
  • Old Church Slavonic—extinct: ISO 639-1 code: cu; ISO 639-3 code: chu

Para- and supranational languages

• Church Slavonic language, derived from Old Church Slavonic, but with significant replacement of the original vocabulary by forms from the Old Russian language and other regional forms. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Polish Orthodox Church, Macedonian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Church, and even some Roman Catholic Churches in Croatia continue to use Church Slavonic as a liturgical language. While not used in modern times, the text of a Church Slavonic Roman Rite Mass survives in Croatia and the Czech Republic, which is best known through Janáček's musical setting of it (the Glagolitic Mass).