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Feb 10, 2017 · 9. If you look at the aspect system of Baltic and Slavonic languages, Baltic systems actually resemble the earlier stages of Slavonic systems (Comrie, 1976). In Lithuanian, adding a prefix to a verb root renders it Perfective, sometimes resulting also in some other semantic change. There is also a suffix -inè, albeit with limited productivity ...
Feb 16, 2020 · Still, the Balto-Slavic languages share a word that does not follow that rule, in this word the PIE *ḱ changed into *k, and not to *s or *š as it would have been expected. Such a change is characteristic of the centum languages, but not the satem Balto-Slavic. The word means 'stone, rock' and it developed so:
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Dec 16, 2018 · Indo-Iranian (containing Indo-Aryan and Iranian groupings) and Balto-Slavic (with Baltic and Slavic groupings) are good examples. Instead of having languages that are part of both groups, they subdivide the groupings closer and call them 'cousins'.
Aug 10, 2016 · I have to say though that I don't understand your dismissiveness - If you pose the existence of Central PIE, of which, at least currently, balto-slavic and indo-iranian are the two biggest groups, then I think at least the question "for how long did balto-slavic and indo-iranian evolve together before splitting" is a valid research question ...
Jul 20, 2017 · To be honest, I think this is a useless question. All IE languages have preserved certain features of the hypothetical parent language and have lost others. All IE languages need to be taken into account in reconstructing the proto-language. There is no objective way to determine which daughter languages have “best” preserved these features.
Oct 14, 2020 · Inspired by this answer to a different question, I ask what kind of features justify a claim that Balto-Slavic languages are closer to Germanic languages than to Indo-Iranian languages. The features may be inherited or later acquired in a Sprachbund fashion but I want the answers to distinguish inherited and acquired features.
From the Romanian point of view, other languages are obviously closer relatives than Albanian: first of all the other neo-Latin languages, then maybe South-Slavic languages like Bulgarian, given the large Slavic lexicon of Romanian. On the other hand, the common Slavic influence brings Albanian and Romanian close to each other too.
