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  1. 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.

  2. 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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  4. 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.

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  5. 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).

  6. Balto-Slavic languages. Old Lithuanian language. (Show more) 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.

  7. B A L T I S T I C A X L I I ( 2 ) 2 0 0 7 185–2 1 0 P e t r a N O V O T N Á, V á c l a v B L A Ž E K Masaryk University GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE BALTO-SLAVIC LANGUAGES In memoriam of Sergei Starostin (March 24, 1953 – Sept. 30, 2005) The explicit purpose of this contribution is to present a quantitative approach to the genetic classification of the Balto-Slavic languages.

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