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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, which points to a period of common development and origin.
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The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European...
- Proto-Balto-Slavic Language
Proto-Balto-Slavic (PBS or PBSl) is a reconstructed...
- List of Balto-Slavic Languages
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Slavic languages descend from Proto-Slavic, their immediate parent language, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor language of all Indo-European languages, via a Proto-Balto-Slavic stage.
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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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Category: Geography & Travel. Also called: Slavonic languages. Key People: Roman Jakobson. Josef Dobrovský. August Leskien. Pavel Josef Šafařík. Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetskoy. (Show more) Old Church Slavonic language. Proto-Slavic language. South Slavic languages. West Slavic languages. (Show more)
15.1 Introduction. 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).
Oct 12, 2023 · Slavic languages are presently divided into three main branches: East Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian), South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, and Slovenian), and West Slavic languages (Czech, Polish, and Slovak).