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Definition of Balto-Slavonic

1. Noun. A family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balto-Slavonic

Literary usage of Balto-Slavonic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages: A Concise Exposition by Karl Brugmann, Robert Seymour Conway, William Henry Denham Rouse (1895)
"... type was very fertile in Balto-Slavonic; and we meet with both the original meanings, — the Causal, and tlx> Intensive or Frequentative (§ 791 p. 324). ..."

2. Preserving The Dnipro River: Harmony, History, and Rehabiliation by Vasyl Yakovych Shevchuk (2005)
"Philologists presume the Germano-Balto-Slavonic community to have preceded the Balto-Slavs. The Dnipro and its tributaries are believed to have played a ..."

3. Historical Grammar of the Ancient Persian Language by Edwin Lee Johnson (1917)
"Since the Aryan, the Armenian, and the Balto-Slavonic show no difference of ... Furthermore, the Aryan, Armenian, and Balto-Slavonic show the tendency of ..."

4. Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas by Friedrich Max Müller (1888)
"Lituanian has preserved some precious relics of Aryan grammar, but as a whole it is not even the most primitive representative of the Balto-Slavonic branch ..."

5. Philologica: Journal of Comparative Philology by Philological Society (Great Britain), Josef Baudiš, Leonard Cyril Wharton (1922)
"In primitive Celtic, Teutonic and Balto-Slavonic they fell together with the original tenues: Ml.W. troet, pi. tract (see § 130), Ir. tra'g, Gaul, ..."

6. Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples: A Manual of Comparative by Otto Schrader, Frank Byron Jevons (1890)
"... which is recorded by Herodotus, and in which the Balto-Slavonic phonetic law ... that the Balto-Slavonic branch still formed one linguistic whole in the ..."

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