1. Balto-Slavic - Noun
2. Balto-Slavic - Adjective
3. Balto-Slavic - Proper noun
a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages
Source: WordNetAlthough most verbs have Balto-Slavic origins, pronouns, prepositions and some verbs have wider, Indo-European roots. Source: Internet
History collapsible main seeAlso Common roots and ancestry Area of Balto-Slavic dialectic continuum (purple) with proposed material cultures correlating to speakers Balto-Slavic in Bronze Age (white). Source: Internet
Finally, there is a minority of scholars who argue that Baltic descended directly from Proto-Indo-European, without an intermediate common Balto-Slavic stage. Source: Internet
However, some linguists – Meillet, Klimas, Zinkevičius – oppose this view, providing arguments against a Balto-Slavic group, and explaining those similarities by one or several periods of close contacts. Source: Internet
Likewise, Albanian has taken the old relative jos and innovatively used it exclusively to qualify adjectives, much in the way Balto-Slavic has used this word to provide the definite ending of adjectives. Source: Internet
Shared features with Balto-Slavic languages, on the other hand (especially present and preterit formations), might be due to later contacts. Source: Internet