History of the Slavic Languages 

this map is all wrong. The Croats weren't striped. They're checkered. It's a big difference.

This representation is heavily biased to modern countries. Example Hungary, Eastern and South Austria were slavic speaking places before the year 1000.

2:20 let's just take a moment to acknowledge barcode romania

I like your map style.

All in all really good video, jut several Slavic languages have longer history of their grammar than the video suggests (Bulgarian, Slovene, Slovak, to name a few) and the fluctuations of geographical extent of some of them have been slightly bigger than shown here.

Slavic influence enter in Romanian territory Italics: Damn you!

Make baltic languages next! And then finno-ugric languages.

Ha: I am a Sorbian.

Old Novgorod dialect that was spoken in North Russia until 16th century is missing. It was very different from Old Russian, could be classified as its own branch(North Slavic)

Video: History of the Slavs. Slavs: *aggressively hate each other in the comments*

Very good map, its just biased towards modern borders and demographics. For example parts of Austria and the panonian basin were slavic speaking before the year 1000 and northern albania was predominantly slavic before the ottoman conquest, judging by ottoman tax reports. And kosovo was majority slavic until pretty recently.

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Reuploaded to improve some points and fix some graphics problems

Somebody needs to make a meme with Cyrill and Methodius saying "Slav, my son, you're a Christian now. Now it's time for you to choose between an alphabet we specially made for your language to fit it's phonetics, or you can choose an alphabet originally invented to write Etruscan and use shitloads of diacritics and digraphs. Catholic Slavs: Szczieczjaščžju

No one: Comments: "This is the russian/greek/ukrainian propaganda!"

1:14 That's... familiar...

4:17 Top 10 Saddest Anime Deaths

Very impressive and difficult task to complete! my only nitpick is that it was a bit early to see Polish dissapear in some of Silesia, in the areas north of the oder Polish was still generlaly the majority language until after the thirty years war, and as well as Opole

Great information! Thank you

Slovene diverged from Serbo-Croatian only a century and a half ago? I find that hard to believe, they're quite different. Some of your info must be off.

Rest in peace polabian slavs conquered by germans

Serbo-Croatian counted as one? As it always should have been ❤

Muito bom. Muito legal. Bem entendido através deste mapa ver expansão do língua eslava. Parabéns.

Parabéns , um excelente trabalho , principalmente na tentativa de sincronização, sou brasileiro de origem eslava (polonesa), lendo os comentários você pode perceber que não consegue agradar a "gregos e troianos" , fique tranquilo foi um ótimo trabalho (nesse exercício temos que levar em conta o nacionalismo e o antagonismo étnico, muita besteira se produz para defender as ideias megalomaníacas ), do ponto de vista cientifico os linguistas e geneticistas estão contribuindo para preencher as lacunas dos arqueólogos, antropólogos e historiadores !

Slovenian is actually closer to czech and slovak language than other south slavic but because of location on the map and our history under yougoslavia they count us as sout slavic language and slovenians inhabit all of Kärnten and styria in austria. And slovenian fist book is from 10th century and first dictionary was written in 15th century which meand that slovenian existed way beafore than what is showed in this video It is miracle that slovenian language still exist at first slovenians or carantanians were part of samo's kingdom and after that we had our country called carantania we fought wars with avars, franks and bavarians. Eventualy we surrender in year 828 and than we beacame duchy of frankish kingdom until year 900 after that franks give carantania under the bavarians and so slovenian language was forbiden until the end of austro-hungary empire in 1918

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4:31 This is particularly the one I like the most

fun fact - there is a region with pomeranian speakers in Brazil

Very useful. Thank you. I always wondered how s Country so close to Italy as Slovenia has a so different lenguauge from neolatin

There is also a village on Sjælland (Denmark) called Kramnitse (or Kramnitze), wich was initially settled by slavs.

Super video :).

In the mid-9th century, Lower Pannonia was inhabited by a Slavic majority. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Pannonia_(9th_century)

The video is grossly inaccurate, Slavic speakers of the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries should've been the vast majority in all of Southeastern Europe and mainland Greece, barring some isolated footholds of Latinitate and Koine Greek, like Monemvasia, Adrianople, Thessaloniki, and some cities on the Eastern Adriatic coast.

Could you sinhronize all your video on one map?

Beautiful history! Well done. But one thing I don't understand. Why Czech and Slovak separated in your map so late? As far as I know (and I am Czech), written Czech was first documented at the begining of 13th century and at the turn of 14th and 15th century, it gradually established as chancery language in Kingdom of Bohemia, Margriavite of Moravia nad Upper Silesian duchies. Approximately at the turn of 15th and 16th century, Czech also established as written language in Upper Hungary (i. e. what is today Slovakia), but in specific, definitely slovakized form, which means, that common spoken language in what is today Slovakia was in that time markedly different from spoken language in Bohemia and Moravia. It does mean, that also Slovak was at that time established as separate language. Not yet written, but definitely spoken. At the turn of 18th and 19th century, Czech literary language underwent extensive modernization (so called Czech national revival, which was basically reaction to preceding prolonged decline of the language), whilst Slovaks developed roughly at the same time genuine Slovak literary language (instead of slovakized Czech). But it definitelly doesn't mean that before 19th century were no separate Czech and Slovak languages. Please, don't take it as criticism. Your histories are awsome and I greatly admire you. It was just my minor factual note.

Why did u upload again?

Good job! The pre-1944 eastern border of Finland is incorrect though, and Hungarian was the prevailing language in the south of modern Slovakia until WWII too

Make a video on Indo-Aryan languages next plz

Your videos are awesomeeee

Interesting 👍

I thought it'd be started from Proto-Balto-Slavic

The term Serbo-Croatian has only been around since 1824 and it was coined by a German dictionarist and folklorist Jacob Grimm, the term completely undermines the Bosnian and Montenegrin influence and development of this branch of Slavic, while many say that this language has the clearest form/accent in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

what are your sources for all these videos? they’re good but how can we know this is all true?

I've noticed that this has the latest starting date compared to other videos of Indo-European brances (unless I missed one with a later date). Does this mean that Slavic is the youngest Indo-European branch?

One correction old Church Slavonic was the official language (old Bulgarian) of the Bulgarian Tsardom.

This is the map of belarussian language in 1903 : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yefim_Karsky#/media/File%3ABelarusians_1903.jpg

I wonder if you can do Arabic varieties

How prevalant is old church Slavonic nowadays?

3:42 it is interesting that Liutprad of Cremona writes that in the northern parts of Europe there live a people who in appearance are called Ρουσιος (Rusios / Reds), and in their place of residence they are called normans (northerners), but normans are Scandinavians, not Slavic.

There is no certainty among historians about the extent of the Slavic languages before 400 CE. Pannonia before the invasion of the Magyars was also Slavic-speaking, although the Avars ruled there.

Wow, that must've taken a lot of time to compile for sure. Talking about painstaking work. However, the Proto-Slavic area shown in the first minute of the video was in vast majority Baltic or Proto-Baltic. On the other hand a huge chunk of the actual Proto-Slavic area has been left blank where it should've been marked Proto-Slavic: that area was approximately the Odra and Wisła basins (+ some middle reaches of the Łaba), naturally restricted by the sea in the north and various mountain ranges in the south. Bordering (Proto-)Baltic in the north-east and east, Thracian in the south-east, Celtic to the south-west and Germanic in the west (also not forgetting the "das drittes Volk" there who were Proto-Balto-Slavic kin of some kind).

Do one on austronesian

Only we Serbs and our enemies Croats keep common language today until 2 thousand years!

Great!

Dont forget to give the video and author a thumbs up.. Its so deserved. This is so cool, and just so fast put things into perspective, this is honey for my brain.

ok but question remains - where did the slavs come from?

Очень интересное видео, спасибо!

Unfortunately, this map is also wrong. There are no traces of Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija before the 17th century. On this map it is shown as if there were no Serbs there at all

R.I.P Polabians (and Panonian Slavs, Dacian Slavs, Greek Slavs and Carantanians) lost slavic cousins [*]

2:09 No OCS in Bohemia or at least Moravia?

I seem The areal of "vyatishs" is not included to "East-Slavic" in this map.

Seeing the sorbs slowly disappear 😔

What about Scythian? Are were slavic?

Было очень интересно! Спасибо!

Shocking to see Germany speaking Slavic languages before 1000

Top notch! Спасибо very much! D.A., J.D., (atty, writer, Russian student) NYC

Bulgarian is spoken since 600s at least. Also it was spoken Vlahia and Moldova at least unitl 1800.

Why does polish influence over Ruthenian suddenly end before 1700? Wasn't the PLC still around then?

If the proto-slavs knew how their offsprings would fight and hate each other would they decide to split up?

Hm, it means that Ukrainian and Russian are not the same, right? Yeah, they were East - Slavic but according to the map Russian appeared earlier and not from Ruthenian as Ukrainian language. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Very nice map! As others mentioned though, slavic identity was much more developed before 1000AD. T😂here are first scripts in ancient Slovene in latin alphabet around 1100 latest in the region of Carinthia/Carniola , the Freising Manuscripts. Differentiation of southwest slavic occured much earlier than depicted. Ancient Slovene was present after Magyar migration between the early westslavic continuum.

Wrong maps. Where are Slavic languages in Carpathian bassin? They were there up to XIX century.

The history of the Slavs before their baptism began is a mystery, shrouded in darkness, and the history of the emergence of the Slavic language and its division into Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and others is generally unknown.The author you guess on the coffee grounds.

You have Austronesian Language history???

Always thought that there were slavic languages in balcans before they had gone towards north.

Turkic people: conquering ancient Indo-European (Scythian lands) Slavs: *And i took this personally*

Very well done. It's interesting that Crimea and southern Ukraine were not Slavic until 1770 therish. What were they before? Turkic I am guessing? Or something else?

Страхотно

please do about the history of the Turkic language! Thank you!

Great work - small correction: Pomeranian should be noted as Kashubian. Source: a Kashubian.

Like for Ruthenian.

Slavs as fast as Rome falls: LET'S DO THIS

2 questions what about slavic languages before 50 A.D. and Czech-Slovak language not existed it was Bohemian= Czech and Sloviene= Slovak + Moravian + Panonian Slavs

1:26 Austria was all slavic

You can clearly see that they wont call it bulgarian its south esat slavic, south slavic, old curch slavonic or something. And now see the hate in my coments ;¬)

Not too bad - considering the difficulty of the topic.

What's the music at 2:00?

seeing the comments of this video kinda weird -Latin language speakers are friendly to each other -German-speaking speakers are friendly to each other -Slavic language speakers seem hostile to each other

Какими же стойкими типами были наши пращуры. Поклон им до земли за дела их вековые

But what happened BEFORE this?? Where does Slavic come from

what do stripes mean?

You forgot Old Novgorodian (North-East Slavic), which separated from Old Russian quite early, probably before the 9th century.

Is pomeranian kaszubian now?

Pomerenian today is actually kashebian anyway nice video and job well done my friend.

I cant believe that you didnt colour Kosovo and Metohija from the 7th century in orange. You are probably doing this for views and a lot of Serb and albanian comments.

4:31 Like, you know, there were always the Czech and Slovak dialects further and further diverging inbetween each other... That date is only when the Slovak language was officialy codified. Same thing with Ruthenian... Also Slovenian is incomprehensible for Serbocroatians (whose original dialects don´t differ according to national lines)

How do we know slavs lived west of the Vistula before the post-roman migrations?

Interesting that Proto-Slavic arose much later than the Germanic language family. How much interaction did the Slavic languages have with East Germanic / Gothic?

Pomeranian language should be renamed into Kashubian somewhere around late XIX century (when other remaining dialect called Slovincian was displaced by German through cultural assimilation). Nobody in Poland uses "pomeranian language" term in everyday speak, apart from linguists and historians.

"Let foreigners, out of ignorance or negligence, take little care of them, but it is unforgivable for us to forget the Bulgarians from whose hands we received baptism, who have taught us to write, to read, in whose vernacular is our worship, in whose language for the most part we wrote almost to the time of Lomonosov, whose cradle is connected by inseparable knots with the cradle of the Russian people and so on. " Yuri Venelin on Bulgarian history in 1829 --- In his article Protection of the Old Bulgarian Language (1990) Prof. Dr. Otto Kronsteiner from Austria writes: “The Old Bulgarian language has become the cultural language of all Orthodox Slavs. It was the first state literary language in Medieval Europe long before the emergence of European literary languages ​​- German, French, Italian, English, Russian "and Serbian inclusive, of course! --- "When Greek Christianity was officially accepted in Russia at the end of the 10th century, its distributors in Russia were mainly Bulgarian clergy. In this way, the Bulgarian language became the basis of the Russian Church and Russian literary language. " M. Fassmer, quoted by M. Popov, The Bulgarian People between the European Races and Peoples, Sofia, Court Printing House, 1938; “The influence of the Bulgarian language was felt extremely strongly by the Russians and Serbs until the 18th century, this influence weakened only in the 19th century, when vernacular elements entered the literature of these two peoples and replaced the influence of the old church influences. These influences were especially strong because the Russian Church Slavonic language also shows too much Bulgarian, and partly directly Eastern Bulgarian elements. М. Фасмер, Die Bulgarische Literatur im Zeitalter des Zaren Simeon und ihre Bedeutung für die Orhodoxe Slawenwelt, Berlin, 1929 --- "The orthography of our (ie Russian, b.a.) manuscripts from the middle of the XV century is a reflection of the orthography of the South Slavic (more precisely of the Middle Bulgarian) manuscripts. It is clear that between the middle of the XIV and the middle of the XV century, the Russian script came under the very strong influence of the South Slavic script and ultimately submitted to this influence. " Alexey Sobolevsky --- "Bulgaria in the 15th century as a whole is this huge center through which the Byzantine influence in Serbia and Russia passes, a center through which this influence gets its Slavic color, strengthened in the numerous translations, which reflect the written reform of Patriarch Euthymius." Dmitry Likhachev