The Windish tungs are the Ind-Europish tungs spoken by the Winds. They are thought to come from an Or-tung called Or-Windish, spoken throughout the Early Middle Eld, which followingly is thought to have come from the earlier Or-Balt-Windish tung, linking the Windish tungs to the Baltish tungs in a Balt-Windish bond within the Ind-Europish bond.
The Windish tungs are meanly (that is, also on the ground of out-of-tung things) split intro three under-bonds: East, West, and South, which together make up more than 20 tungs. Of these, ten have at least a thousand thousand speakers and are acknowledged as the folk tungs of the lands in which they are overwhelmingly spoken: Russish, Whiterussish and Ukrainish (of the East bond), Polish, Checkish and Slovakish (of the West bond) and Bulgarish and Mackedonish (eastern undertungs of the South bond), and Serbish-Croatish and Slovenish (western undertungs of the South bond).
The spread of inborn spoken Windish tungs today fills Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Middle Europe and all of the land of Russland, which inholds northern and north-middle Asia. Furthermore, many outland Windish folk have built split-off bonds of speakers of their tungs all over the world. The tale of speakers of all Windish tungs together is thought to be 315 thousand thousand. Even though they are spread over a great swath of land, the Windish tungs are much less sundered from each other than Theedish and Roomanish tungs.
Boughs[]
Balt-Windish tung tree.
From the between-wye time wise men have meanly split Windish tungs, on the ground of land and offspring, and with the brooking of writ, into three main boughs, that is, East, West and South. These three mean boughs show some of the following underboughs:
- East Windish
- Whiterussish
- Russish
- Ukrainish
- Rusyn
- West Windish
- Check–Slovakish
- Polish-like
- Sorbish
- Upper Sorbish
- Lower Sorbish
- South Windish
- Eastern
- Bulgarish
- Mackedonish
- Church Windish
- Western
- Serbish
- Croatish
- Bosnish
- Blackbarrowish
- Burgenland Croatish
Some speechlorers think that there might have been a North Windish bough as well. The Old Novgorod undertung may have shown some one-of-a-kind workings of this bond. How much understanding of each other's tungs there is is also weighty in settling the West, East, and South boughs. Speakers of tungs within the same bough can mostly understand each other at least sometimes, but they cannot, overall, between boughs (which would be akin to an inborn English speaker seeking to understand any other Theedish tung).
The most glaring unlikenesses between the East, West and South Windish boughs are in the right-writing of the tungs: West Windish tungs (and Western South Windish tungs - Croatish and Slovenish) are written with Leeden writing, and have had more Western Europish sway from their nearness and speakers being Roomanish Catholish, whereas the East Windish and Eastern South Windish tungs are written in Cyrillish and, with Eastern Orthodox belief, have had more Greekish sway. East Windish tungs like Russish have, however, at the time of and after Peter the Great's Europishing struggle, taken in many words from Leeden, French, Theech, and Italish.
The threeway split of the Windish tungs is not grounded on each tung's spoken undertungs. Of these, some so-called tweentungs and mished undertungs often bridge the gaps between unlike tungs, showing likenesses that do not stand out when matching Windish written tungs. As a byword, Slovakish (West Windish) and Ukrainish (East Windish) are bridged by the Rusyn (under)tung of Eastern Slovakland and Western Ukraine. Matchingly, the Croatish Kajkavian undertung is more like Slovene than to the mean Croatish tung.
Although the Windish tungs split from a shared or-tung later than any other bond of the Ind-Europish tung bond, there are enough unlikenesses between the sundry Windish tungs and undertungs to make understanding each other's speech between speakers of unlike Windish tungs hard. Within the sundry lone Windish tungs, undertungs may sunder less, as those of Russish, or much more, as those of Slovenish.