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Sep 2, 2015 · The Slavic branch of the Balto-Slavic sub-family of Indo-European languages underwent rapid divergence as a result of the spatial expansion of its speakers from Central-East Europe, in early medieval times. This expansion–mainly to East Europe and the northern Balkans–resulted in the incorporation of genetic components from numerous autochthonous populations into the Slavic gene pools ...
Languages of the Indo-European family are classified as either centum languages or satem languages according to how the dorsal consonants (sounds of "K", "G" and "Y" type) of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) developed. An example of the different developments is provided by the words for "hundred" found in the early attested ...
Evidence from early historiography. The 9th-century Bulgarian writer Chernorizets Hrabar, in his work An Account of Letters (Church Slavonic: О писмєньхъ, O pismenĭhŭ), briefly mentions that, before becoming Christian, Slavs used a system he had dubbed "strokes and incisions" or "tallies and sketches" in some translations (Old Church Slavonic: чръты и рѣзы, črŭty i rězy).
Eastern Baltic languages. Latvian (~2.2 million speakers, whereof ~1.75 million native speakers, 0.5 million second language speakers) Latgalian (150,000–200,000 speakers) Lithuanian (~3 million native speakers) Selonian †. Semigallian †. Old Curonian (sometimes considered Western Baltic) †.
Feb 16, 2020 · Still, the Balto-Slavic languages share a word that does not follow that rule, in this word the PIE *ḱ changed into *k, and not to *s or *š as it would have been expected. Such a change is characteristic of the centum languages, but not the satem Balto-Slavic. The word means 'stone, rock' and it developed so:
Proto-Baltic ( PB, PBl, Common Baltic) is the unattested, reconstructed ancestral proto-language of all Baltic languages. It is not attested in writing, but has been partly reconstructed through the comparative method by gathering the collected data on attested Baltic and other Indo-European languages.
Albanian epic poetry is a form of epic poetry created by the Albanian people. It consists of a longstanding oral tradition still very much alive. [3] [4] [5] A good number of Albanian epic singers ( Albanian : lahutarë or rapsodë , 'bards' or 'rhapsodes') can be found today in Kosovo and northern Albania , and some also in Montenegro . [4]
