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Some examples of words shared among most or all Balto-Slavic languages: *léiˀpāˀ ' tilia ' (linden tree): Lithuanian líepa , Old Prussian līpa , Latvian liẽpa , Latgalian līpa , Common Slavic *lipa (Old Church Slavonic липа , Russian ли́па , Polish lipa , Czech lípa )
The Balto-Slavic languages are mainly spoken in areas of eastern, northern and southern parts of Europe. The Balto-Slavic languages are daughter languages of the now extinct PIE . There are only two Baltic languages spoken today: Lithuanian and Latvian.
Balto-Slavic languages, hypothetical language group comprising the languages of the Baltic and Slavic subgroups of the Indo-European language family. Those scholars who accept the Balto-Slavic hypothesis attribute the large number of close similarities in the vocabulary, grammar, and sound systems.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
History of the Slavic languages. The history of the Slavic languages stretches over 3000 years, from the point at which the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language broke up (c. 1500 BC) into the modern-day Slavic languages which are today natively spoken in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe as well as parts of North Asia and Central Asia.
Baltic languages. Latvian; Lithuanian; Latgalian; West Slavic languages. Polish; Czech; Slovak; Silesian; Sorbian (Serbsce and Serbski) Kashubian; South Slavic languages. Croatian; Serbian; Bosnian; Slovene; Bulgarian; Church Slavonic; Macedonian; East Slavic languages. Russian; Ukrainian; Belorussian
Vocabulary. The original vocabulary of general terms common to Baltic and Slavic is still retained in most of the Slavic languages. In prehistoric times Proto-Slavic borrowed a number of important social and religious terms from Iranian (e.g., bogŭ ‘god’ and mirŭ ‘peace’).
