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. Although the notion of a Balto-Slavic unity has been contested (partly due to …

The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples or their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to …

Slavic languages, also called Slavonic languages, group of Indo-European languages spoken in most of eastern Europe, much of the Balkans, parts of central Europe, and the northern part of Asia. The Slavic languages, spoken by some 315 million people at the turn of the 21st century, are most closely related to the languages of the Baltic group (Lithuanian, Latvian, and the now …

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. The most important of the ancient languages was Latin, the official language of ancient Rome, which conquered the other Italic peoples before the common era.The other Italic languages became extinct in the …

May 12, 2013 · Slavs are the people who speak the languages that belong to the Balto-Slavic group of languages that belong to the Indo-European language family. ... Slavic People and Countries Today. Today, the Slavic peoples live on the territory of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia – and are considered West Slavs; Ukraine, Belarus, Russia – East Slavs ...

Old Prussian was a Western Baltic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, which was once spoken by the Old Prussians, the Baltic peoples of the Prussian region.The language is called Old Prussian to avoid confusion with the German dialects of Low Prussian and High Prussian and with the adjective Prussian as it relates to the later …

Ukrainian (native name: украї́нська мо́ва, romanized: ukrainska mova, IPA: [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkɐ ˈmɔʋɐ]) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family.It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state language of Ukraine in Eastern Europe.Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script.

The Basques have been found to descend from the population of the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age directly. By contrast, Indo-European groups of Europe (the Centum, Balto-Slavic, and Albanian groups) migrated throughout most of Europe from the Pontic steppe.They are assumed to have developed in situ through admixture of earlier Mesolithic and Neolithic populations with Bronze …

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Germanic paganism included various religious practices of the Germanic peoples from the Iron Age until Christianisation during the Middle Ages.Religious practices represented an essential element of early Germanic culture.From both archaeological remains and literary sources, it is possible to trace a number of common or closely related beliefs among the Germanic peoples …