Proper noun
West Slavic
A subgrouping of the Slavic language family spoken mainly in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lusatia (a small area in Germany).
Due to heavy borrowings from Polish, German, Czech and Latin, early modern vernacular Ukrainian (prosta mova, "simple speech") had more lexical similarity with West Slavic languages than with Russian or Church Slavonic. Source: Internet
Except for Polish they differ from East and South Slavic languages by their initial-syllable stress, and Czech is distinguished from other West Slavic languages by a more-restricted distinction between "hard" and "soft" consonants (see Phonology below). Source: Internet
Biography Legend says that Estrid was taken back to Sweden from a war in the West Slavic area of Mecklenburg as a war-prize. Source: Internet
Only some rural communities which did not have a strong admixture with Germans and continued to use West Slavic languages were still termed Wends. Source: Internet
It may have roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and may be related to the Old Polabian stem berl-/birl- ("swamp"). citation Folk etymology connects the name to the German word for bear, Bär. Source: Internet
Mutual intelligibility main Czech and Slovak have been considered mutually intelligible ; speakers of either language can communicate with greater ease than those of any other pair of West Slavic languages. Source: Internet