Bal·to-Sla·vic

(bôl′tō-slä′vĭk, -slăv′ĭk)

A branch of the Indo-European language family that consists of the Baltic and Slavic languages.

Bal′to-Sla′vic adj.

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Bal•to-Sla•vic

(ˈbɔl toʊˈslɑ vɪk, -ˈslæv ɪk)

n.

the Baltic and Slavic language families collectively, as a subgroup of Indo-European.

[1896]

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Noun

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

Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavonic

Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Indo-European - the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia

Slavic, Slavic language, Slavonic, Slavonic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages

Baltic language, Baltic - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European

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For each language group--here Slavic, Baltic, Albanian, Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, and Proto-Indo-European--articles cover documentation, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, dialectology, and evolution.

Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics

Accent matters; papers on Balto-Slavic accentology.

Accent matters; papers on Balto-Slavic accentology

It has been accepted that Low German shares more features with Balto-Slavic languages than High German, palatalization being one of them (Stanisic 2006:118), which dovetails into the present proposal.

Where boys, girls and children come from

1975, 1989, 2005), the Balto-Slavic acute was a glottal stop which developed from the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals and glottalic consonants (for which see Kortlandt 1985) and yielded a short rising tone in Late Proto-Slavic.

Glottalization and tonogenesis in Athabaskan, Balto-Slavic and Germanic/ Glotalizacija i geneza tona u athabaskanskom, baltoslavenskom i germanskom

But the language tree also revealed evidence of a period of rapid divergence giving rise to Italic, Celtic, Balto-Slavic and possibly Indo-Iranian languages at about the time of the Kurgan expansion.

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