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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.
Baltic. 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.
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 ...
