Slavs

Slavic peoples are based on Slavic languages which belong to the Indo-European family of languages. Modern Slavs are divided into 3 groups: east, south and west. Belorussians, Russians and Ukrainians concern to the east, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Macedonians, Serbs, Slovenes, Croatians and Montenegrins concern to the south, Luzhichians, Poles, Slovaks and Czechs - to the western. Slavic languages are related to other Indo-European languages by the most ancient roots and formations. Slavic languages are especially close to the group of Baltic languages, even a special Slavic-Baltic community (2-1 millennia BC) is distinguished. In even more ancient times Slavic languages (4-3 millennia BC) most likely were closely connected with Iranian languages. In the 1st millennium A.D. Slavic languages entered into various connections with Germanic languages, and also with Greek.