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West Slavic groups Polish, Czech, Slovak, Kashubian and the extinct Polabian, spoken chiefly in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Facts
Region
Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia 1
Speaker Count
56,000,000 1
Combined living speakers; mid-2020s estimate.
Proto-Language Status
Descends from Proto-Slavic, an unattested, reconstructed proto-language; overall Slavic linguistic unity and mutual intelligibility persisted into the tenth century or later before the East, West and South branches fully diverged. 2
Cross-Tradition Connections

Descends From

Slavic, Language Families
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Czech, Languages
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Polish, Languages
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sources
2. Wikipedia: Proto-Slavic Language
WikipediaIntroduction
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Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages.
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