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George S. Lane Douglas Q. Adams. 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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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.
Proto-Slavic. Old Church Slavonic, liturgical. Knaanic, Jewish language. Old Novgorod dialect. Old East Slavic, developed into modern East Slavic languages. Old Ruthenian. Polabian language. Pomeranian language, only Kashubian remains as a living dialect. South Slavic dialects used in medieval Greece.
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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 ). The first 2,000 years or so consist of the pre-Slavic ...
The early development of the Slavic languages. The separate development of South Slavic was caused by a break in the links between the Balkan and the West Slavic groups that resulted from the settling of the Magyars in Hungary during the 10th century and from the Germanization of the Slavic regions of Bavaria and Austria. Some features common ...
Slavic languages - Vocabulary, Dialects, Origins: The original vocabulary of general terms common to Baltic and Slavic is still retained in most of the Slavic languages. In prehistoric times Proto-Slavic borrowed a number of important social and religious terms from Iranian (e.g., bogŭ ‘god’ and mirŭ ‘peace’). Later, special terms were borrowed by East Slavic and South Slavic from ...
The Balto-Slavic language group is a hypothetical group made up of the Baltic and Slavic languages. They are part of this family group because it is claimed by some Germanic and Slavic linguists that these two language groups share some similarities involving the linguistic traits of the two language families .
