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

    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.

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

    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.

  5. www.cambridge.org › core › booksBalto-Slavic (Chapter 15) - The Indo-European Language Family

    15 - Balto-Slavic. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2022. By. Tijmen Pronk. Edited by. Thomas Olander. Chapter. 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.

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

    Some features common to Slovak and Slovene may have developed before the West-South break. The eastward expansion of dialects of Balkan Romanian (a Romance language) led to a break in the connection between the South and the East Slavic groups about the 11th–12th century. The history of the Balkan Slavs was closely.

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

    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.

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

    hide. Beginning. References. Balto-Slavic languages. The Balto-Slavic language group is a hypothetical group made up of the Baltic and Slavic languages.