Balto-Slavic

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1. Balto-Slavic - Noun

2. Balto-Slavic - Adjective

3. Balto-Slavic - Proper noun

Meaning

a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages

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Although 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

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