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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.
Langue officielle : balte (orientale) slave occidentale. slave orientale. slave méridionale. modifier. Les langues balto-slaves sont une branche de la famille des langues indo-européennes. Elles regroupent les langues baltes et les langues slaves.
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Save PDF. Summary. Since the times of Bopp and Schleicher, Baltic and Slavic have been treated as a single branch of the Indo-European language family. Throughout the nineteenth century, this view remained unchallenged, and it is presented as received wisdom in Brugmann’s Grundriss (1897: 20–1).
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 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.
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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Baltic languages, group of Indo-European languages that includes modern Latvian and Lithuanian, spoken on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and the extinct Old Prussian, Yotvingian, Curonian, Selonian, and Semigallian languages. The Baltic languages are more closely related to Slavic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian (in that order) than to the ...
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.
