When Did Slavic Languages Separate?

All Slavic languages are believed to have descended from a common ancestor called Proto-Slavic, which, in turn, is thought to have split off from Proto-Indo-European possibly as early as 2,000 B.C. Proto-Slavic, was probably the common language of all Slavs as late as the 8th or 9th century A.D., but by the 10th ...

When did Slavic languages split?

By around 1000 AD, the area had broken up into separate East Slavic, West Slavic and South Slavic languages, and in the following centuries, i.e. 11–14th century, it broke up further into the various modern Slavic languages, of which the following are extant: Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn and Ukrainian in the East; Czech, ...

When did Baltic and Slavic split?

The Balto-Slavic node was recognized already in the pioneer Indo-European tree by [9]. The split between Baltic and Slavic branches has been dated to around 3,500–2,500 YBP [6–8], whereas further diversification of the Slavic languages probably occurred much later, around 1,700–1,300 YBP according to [6–8,10–12].