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Balto-Slavic languages. 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.
In the article Lithuanian language, the sentence "The Proto-Balto-Slavic languages branched off directly from Proto-Indo-European, then branched into Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic." leads to Proto-Balto-Slavic_language instead of Proto-Baltic. It basically tells us that something branched into itself.--.
Pages in category "Balto-Slavic languages". The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Balto-Slavic languages. List of Balto-Slavic languages.
Slavs are a collection of peoples who speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout northern Eurasia, mainly inhabiting Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Siberia. A large Slavic minority is also scattered across the ...
Samogitian. The East Baltic languages are a group of languages that along with the extinct West Baltic languages belong to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. The East Baltic branch has only four living languages— Latvian, Latgalian, Lithuanian, and Samogitian. [1] It also includes now-extinct Selonian, Semigallian, and ...
Balto-Slavic languages. The West Slavic languages are a subdivision of the Slavic language group. [1] They include Polish, Czech, Slovak, Kashubian, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. [1] The languages have traditionally been spoken across a mostly continuous region encompassing the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, [1] the westernmost regions of ...
Shared features with Balto-Slavic languages, on the other hand (especially present and preterit formations), might be due to later contacts. [53] The Indo-Hittite hypothesis proposes that the Indo-European language family consists of two main branches: one represented by the Anatolian languages and another branch encompassing all other Indo ...