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. ... Some examples of words shared among most or all ...

The East Slavic languages constitute one of the three regional subgroups of Slavic languages.These languages are currently spoken natively throughout Eastern Europe and extend eastwards to Siberia and the Russian Far East; while being also spoken as a lingua franca in many regions of Caucasus and Central Asia.Speakers of East Slavic languages far out-number the …

May 12, 2013 · Read: Slavic Names Explained With Examples. East Slavs. They occupy the territory of Belarus, Ukraine, and most of Russia and speak one of the East Slavic languages. Over 81 percent of the people in Russia are considered Russians, meaning that they speak the Russian language, therefore most of them are considered Slavs.

May 05, 2014 · Balto-Slavic. This branch contains two sub-branches: Baltic and Slavic. ... Examples of this groups of languages are Phrygian, Thracian, Ancient Macedonian (not to be confused with Macedonian, a language currently spoken in the Republic of Macedonia, part of the Slavic branch), Illyrian, Venetic, Messapic, and Lusitanian. ...

The Yuezhi (Chinese: 月氏; pinyin: Yuèzhī; Wade–Giles: Yüeh 4-chih 1, [ɥê ʈʂɻ̩́]) were an ancient people first described in Chinese histories as nomadic pastoralists living in an arid grassland area in the western part of the modern Chinese province of Gansu, during the 1st millennium BC.After a major defeat at the hands of the Xiongnu in 176 BC, the Yuezhi split into two groups ...

ramp: [verb] to stand or advance menacingly with forelegs or with arms raised. to move or act furiously.