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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Balto-Slavic_languagesBalto-Slavic languages - Wikipedia

    The acute arose primarily when the syllable ended in a PIE voiced consonant (as in Winter's law) or when it ended in a laryngeal. The distinction is reflected in most Balto-Slavic languages, including Proto-Slavic, as an opposition between rising and falling tone on accented syllables.

  2. www.britannica.com › topic › Balto-Slavic-languagesBalto-Slavic languages | Slavic, Baltic & Indo-European

    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. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › Balto-Slavic_languagesBalto-Slavic languages - Simple English Wikipedia, the free ...

    The Balto-Slavic languages are mainly spoken in areas of eastern, northern and southern parts of Europe. The Balto-Slavic languages are daughter languages of the now extinct PIE . There are only two Baltic languages spoken today: Lithuanian and Latvian.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Slavic_languagesSlavic languages - Wikipedia

    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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  7. archive.org › details › EtymologicalDictionaryOfTheEtymological Dictionary Of The Slavic Inherited Lexicon

    Oct 31, 2013 · This dictionary in the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series systematically and exhaustively deals with the Slavic inherited lexicon. It is unique in combining recent insights from the field of comparative Indo-European linguistics with modern Balto-Slavic accentology.

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Proto-Balto-Slavic_languageProto-Balto-Slavic language - Wikipedia

    Proto-Balto-Slavic ( PBS or PBSl) is a reconstructed hypothetical proto-language descending from Proto-Indo-European (PIE). From Proto-Balto-Slavic, the later Balto-Slavic languages are thought to have developed, composed of the Baltic and Slavic sub-branches, and including modern Lithuanian, Polish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian, among others.

  9. www.britannica.com › topic › Slavic-languagesSlavic languages - Proto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-European

    The emergence of the individual Slavic languages. After the schism between the Eastern (Orthodox) and Western (Roman) Christian churches in the 11th century and the beginning of the Crusades, the Church Slavonic language fell out of use in all West Slavic countries and in the western part of the Balkan Slavic region.