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t. e. The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European branch, [1] which points to a period of common development and origin.
Les langues baltes semblent avoir conservé tous des éléments archaïques de leur ancêtre commun, le proto-balte, et des caractéristiques saillantes du proto-indo-européen. L'usage des langues baltes fut longtemps limité à la tradition orale. et les Baltes eux-mêmes n'ont commencé à se servir de l'écriture que relativement récemment.
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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.
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15.2.2 Shared Innovations in the Core Lexicon . The existence of a unitary Balto-Slavic proto-language is confirmed by the fact that Baltic and Slavic share a number of lexemes belonging to the core vocabulary that are either not found in other Indo-European languages or that show identical morphological or semantic innovations compared to cognates in other Indo-European languages.
The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people [1] [2] mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Europe. Together with the Slavic languages, they form the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European family.
Introduction: the Balto-Slavic languages and Proto-Balto-Slavic 2. Consonants 3. Vowels and diphthongs 4. Prosodic phenomena and syllable structure 5. References 1. Introduction: the Balto-Slavic languages and Proto-Balto-Slavic This chapter assumes a Balto-Slavic subgroup of Indo-European, as detailed in Petit, Balto-Slavic, of this handbook.
