Balto-Slavic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or pertaining to both the Baltic and Slavic language families, which together constitute a branch or dialect group within the larger Indo-European family.

   “Of the modern Balto-Slavic languages, Lithuanian is often regarded as the most conservative in morphology and phonology, followed closely by Latvian.”

2. sıfat Of or pertaining to the (Proto-)Balto-Slavic language, the people who spoke it, or their culture.
3. özel isim The Balto-Slavic language group as a whole.

   “Having originated in a satem Indo-European dialect area, some innovations such as the ruki sound rule progressed over the history of Balto-Slavic, but did not fully "complete" outside of Slavic.”

4. özel isim The Proto-Balto-Slavic language, i.e. the common development stage between the Proto-Indo-European and the later Baltic and Slavic languages.