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Slavic Countries

Can you name all the countries where a majority of the population speaks a Slavic language?
According to this map
Quiz by marek594
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Last updated: January 2, 2023
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First submittedDecember 5, 2012
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West Slavs
Czech Republic
Poland
Slovakia
South Slavs
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Serbia
Slovenia
East Slavs
Belarus
Russia
Ukraine
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Level 65
Jul 9, 2017
Well, I got all but one correct, but I truly do not understand what "Slavic country" or "Slavic language" means and why some of former USSR and former Yugoslavia countries are listed, while others are not. Prior to their break ups, were USSR and Yugoslavia "Slavic countries" or not? Could a country be only "part Slavic"? -- as this is what this would imply. Guess I'll look it up.
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Level 77
Jul 10, 2017
You can find it in the source of this quiz.
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Level 82
Jul 10, 2017
"Can you name all the countries where a majority of the population speaks a Slavic language?"

I think this is quite clear and a logical choice. Maybe it wasn't there at first.

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Level ∞
Jul 11, 2017
It was
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Level 75
Nov 10, 2017
The other former Yugoslav and former USSR countries do not speak Slavia languages and some of them are not even racially Slavs. That's why they are not in this quiz - which is 100% correct.
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Level 65
Nov 10, 2017
Slavs are a broad ethnic group that speak related languages (like how Germans, Dutch, Danish, English, etc. speak related Germanic languages). Slavic people mostly live in Eastern and south/central Europe, but not every country there is majority Slavic. Austrians are Germanic, not Slavic; Hungarians are not Slavic, neither are Romanians or Greeks. If you look at Slavic languages, there is a decent degree of mutual intelligibility, especially from languages that border each other. Croatian and Serbian are almost the same language, and Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarussian are all very similar as well.

In the former Soviet/Russian empire territory, some lands were settled mostly by Slavs, some have mixed populations of Slavs and non-Slavs, such as Kazakhstan and Latvia (which have a lot of ethnic Russians). Armenians and Georgians, for example, are their own ethnic groups that speak languages unrelated to Russian/Ukrainian/other Slavic languages.

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Level 84
Nov 10, 2017
I never would have guessed Moldova wasn't Slavic.
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Level 53
Feb 19, 2023
Moldova speaks a dialect of Romanian, a Romance language. However, Romania and Moldova are cut off from the rest of the Latin world, so it is reasonable to presume that they are Slavic.
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Level 82
Nov 10, 2017
To be precise, Armenian is an Indo-European language and thus IS related to Slavic languages.
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Level 84
Nov 11, 2017
For clarification, I wasn't trying to argue that Moldovan was slavic but rather expressing my ignorance of the language and its associated group.
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Level 70
Nov 11, 2017
Armenian is it's own branch of the IE Family though, so even though it is related to the other IE languages, it's alphabet, grammar system and vocab are unique enough to classify it by itself (same goes with Albanian)
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Level 73
Nov 11, 2017
Not to mention that the IE family contains such a huge and diverse spectrum of languages, which makes it more practical to use the sub-branches to classify languages. It's like saying Hindi and English are related because they are in the same family. Well, they are, but very, very distantly so.
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Level 82
Nov 14, 2017
Romanian is very similar to Italian. Though just because a people speak a language doesn't necessarily mean anything beyond that. I mean... most Inuit people speak English these days. Does that make them English? By the standard of this quiz, yes. But people get it into their head, thanks to tribal concepts like nationalism and race, that ethnic groups are discrete and permanent when in reality they are constantly changing and always bleeding into each other. See this map for example and see that Romanians, Bulgarians, Hungarians and Slovaks are indeed pretty damn similar in spite of not speaking languages that are closely related.
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Level 29
Nov 10, 2017
im russian.so there are my brothers!хей слав
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Level 74
Mar 5, 2018
And I'm Polish! Hi brother!
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Level 77
Dec 19, 2020
Здраво брате.
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Level 22
Jun 25, 2021
Pozdrav iz Slovenije!
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Level 58
Nov 10, 2017
no kosovo
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Level 74
Nov 10, 2017
Most people in Kosovo speak albanian.
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Level 20
Jun 17, 2021
kosovo is serbia
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Level 16
Jun 23, 2021
nope Kosovo is independent sorry Serb also not sorry
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Level 70
Nov 11, 2017
Yeah, especially after that kicked most of the Serbs out
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Level 46
Nov 10, 2017
easy! :)
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Level 45
Nov 10, 2017
great quiz
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Level 63
Nov 10, 2017
Is this by native or total, because I think most Kazakhs can speak Russian at least as a second language.
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Level 82
Nov 10, 2017
Must be only native speakers, otherwise

(almost?) all ex-USSR would be included.

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Level 74
Nov 10, 2017
How exactly do more people get Slovenia than Russia...
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Level 82
Nov 10, 2017
They don't actually know what Slavic means and just enter Slovenia and Slovakia?
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Level 67
Nov 12, 2017
Russia was actually the last one I got because I had a brain fart, and thought "No, they're Cyrillic..." then I remembered that Cyrillic is only the alphabet. And that I am an idiot.
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Level 72
Nov 12, 2017
You're clever enough that the alphabet is Cyrillic and not "Russian". As someone coming from another country with the same alphabet, who's getting tired of explaining its name, I salute you! :)
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Level 49
Sep 13, 2019
I respect that, consider that Slovenia literally means "Land of the Slavs". :)
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Level 22
Jun 25, 2021
This is the first time in my life that I see more people guessing Slovenia, my country, than any other. I think I'll cry
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Level 82
Nov 10, 2017
Here you go, more Slavic quizzes:

Countries with Slavic speakers (including non-native speakers)

Countries with a Slavic Official Language (including regions, municipalities etc)

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Level 55
Nov 11, 2017
Done with 1:49, and yes, I'm slav
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Level 63
Nov 12, 2017
How is it that Romania and Albania aren't considered part of this list?
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Level 72
Nov 12, 2017
In neither of this countries the majority of the population speaks a Slavic language. How is it that you didn't read the discussion above before commenting?
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Level 82
Nov 14, 2017
That's sort of how we do things around here.
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Level 78
Jun 17, 2021
Romanian is a Romance language and is more closely related to Dalmatian and Italian than it is to the Slavic languages (although it does contain a lot of loan words from Ukrainian and Bulgarian). Albanian is an Indo-European language (along with the Romance and Slavic languages) but is not closely related to any other language.
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Level 72
Feb 20, 2023
I thought Dalmatian was extinct.
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Level 70
Nov 14, 2017
Nice tidy quiz, but WHY OH WHY can't I deal with having the "West Slavs" on the right side and the "East Slavs" on the left. If only it were reversed!
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Level ∞
Jan 2, 2023
Reversed it!
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Level 32
Mar 21, 2019
13/13
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Level 50
Feb 3, 2020
Czech Republic the best Slavic country 🇨🇿 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿
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Level 56
Jun 17, 2021
on god frfr
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Level 73
Jul 16, 2020
And like 100 years there would only be 3 different type of South Slavs..
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Level 58
Jun 17, 2021
i had always thought that the balkan states of estonia, lithuania and latvia were slavic.

Time to reresearch there histories

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Level 48
Jun 17, 2021
Those are Baltic countries, not Balkan. Latvian and Lithuanian are Baltic languages, Estonian is Uralic/Finnic language.
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Level 44
Jun 17, 2021
Estonian is part of the same family as Finnish. I'm surprised Lithuania and Latvia aren't there, but apparently there's a difference between Baltic and Slavic languages.
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Level 53
Feb 19, 2023
The collective Balto-Slavic language group does exist, however the Baltic languages are different.
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Level 20
Jun 28, 2021
got 13/13 in 30 seconds
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Level 76
Feb 10, 2022
Klopek. Is that a Slavic name?
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Level 63
Feb 19, 2023
Is Moldova not Slavic?
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Level 28
Feb 19, 2023
its not. its more roman, like romania, but not slavic
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Level 51
Feb 23, 2023
I also found this out from this quiz! Moldovan is apparently mutually intelligible with Romanian and they are only considered separate languages for political reasons. Many linguists and even many people from the two countries consider it the same language.
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Level 68
Feb 19, 2023
Even though their language is very close to Romanian, aka a Romance language, Moldovans could still very well be considered Slavic
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Level 72
Feb 20, 2023
Very close? In linguistic reality, the language is the same as Romanian.
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Level 33
Feb 21, 2023
i saw the source, looked at the map after the quiz, and never thought Canada was part Slavic
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Level 51
Feb 23, 2023
Today I learned Bulgarian is a southern slavic language (not sure what I actually thought it was, maybe a separate family like how Albanian is isolated), and only guessed it because of the alphabetised empty space between B&H and Croatia oh jeez time to return to school.
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Level 19
Apr 9, 2023
I almost forgot montenegro, i didnt really know it was a slavi country tho. like there was one more left and i started typing all the balkan countries except greece and albania
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Level 54
Oct 12, 2023
You can divide different slavs by drinks of choise:

East Slavs: Vodka

South Slavs: Raki/Rakia

West Slavs: a bit of everything

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Level 78
Oct 17, 2023
Fairly definitive.