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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.
Proto-Balto-Slavic *elawa/*alawa "lead" > Bulgarian (dial.) élavo, Polish ołów, Russian ólovo "tin", Old Prussian elwas ~ alwis. Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera/*áźera "lake" > Bulgarian ézero, ézer (dial.), Polish jezioro, Latvian ezers, Lithuanian ẽžeras; Russian ózero, Old Prussian assaran, Latgalian azars.
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The Proto-Slavic language, the hypothetical ancestor of the modern-day Slavic languages, developed from the ancestral Proto-Balto-Slavic language ( c. 1500 BC), which is the parent language of the Balto-Slavic languages (both the Slavic and Baltic languages, e.g. Latvian and Lithuanian ).
Thomas Olander. Chapter. Save PDF. Cite. 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).
Introduction. Balto-Slavic material culture in Bronze Age. Proto-Slavic is descended from the Proto-Balto-Slavic branch of the Proto-Indo-European language family, which is the ancestor of the Baltic languages, e.g. Lithuanian and Latvian.
Britannica Quiz. Languages & Alphabets. In some documents of the 10th and 11th centuries, the Bohemian variant (which shares some West Slavic peculiarities with Moravian) has been preserved.