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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.
- List of Balto-Slavic Languages
List of Balto-Slavic languages. These are the Balto-Slavic...
- Slavic languages
Slavic languages are highly fusional and, with some...
- List of Balto-Slavic Languages
List of Balto-Slavic languages. Map of where Balto-Slavic languages were historically spoken. Other language families and subfamilies can also be seen. There are many Balto-Slavic languages. Some are now extinct and some are still spoken today.
The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people [1] [2] mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Europe. Together with the Slavic languages, they form the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European family.
The Slavic languages, spoken by some 315 million people at the turn of the 21st century, are most closely related to the languages of the Baltic group (Lithuanian, Latvian, and the now-extinct Old Prussian), but they share certain linguistic innovations with the other eastern Indo-European language groups (such as Indo-Iranian and Armenian) as ...
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Article History. Related Topics: Indo-European languages. Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Balto-Slavic languages, hypothetical language group comprising the languages of the Baltic and Slavic subgroups of the Indo-European language family.
