Balto-Slavic

Also known as Balto-Slavic languages

branch of the Indo-European language family

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Balto-Slavic is a branch of the Indo-European language family that includes the Baltic languages (spoken in Lithuania and Latvia) and the Slavic languages (spoken across much of Eastern Europe and Russia). Linguists study this language group to understand how languages evolved and spread across Europe, and how ancient peoples who spoke these languages were related to each other.

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Encyclopedic overview

Balto-Slavic languages

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balto-Slavic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.