what is slavic

The Slavs or Slavic peoples are the most populous European ethnolinguistic group. They are traditionally divided along linguistic lines into West Slavic (including Czechs, Poles, and Slovaks), East Slavic (including Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians, and Rusyns), and South Slavic (including Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs, and Slovenians). The Slavic language group is categorized with the satem or eastern isogloss of the Indo-European language family, along with the Baltic and Indo-Iranian groups. The Slavic languages include Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian to the east; Polish, Czech, and Slovak to the west; and Slovenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian to the south. All of the Slavic languages are closely related to each other, but they are also related to the Romance and Germanic languages, including English, and to others in the Indo-European family. The Slavic people immigrated from nations we know today as Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.