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 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 …

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 …

International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations".. International may also refer to:

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 …

In Slavic mythology, Perun (Cyrillic: Перýн) is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain, law, war, fertility and oak trees. His other attributes were fire, mountains, wind, iris, eagle, firmament (in Indo-European languages, this was joined with the notion of the sky of stone), horses and carts, weapons (hammer, axe (Axe of Perun), and arrow ...

The Celtic languages (usually / ˈ k ɛ l t ɪ k /, but sometimes / ˈ s ɛ l t ɪ k / in the United States) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic.They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts ...

The Volga Finns (sometimes referred to as Eastern Finns) are a historical group of indigenous peoples of Russia living in the vicinity of the Volga, who speak Uralic languages.Their modern representatives are the Mari people, the Erzya and the Moksha Mordvins, as well as speakers of the extinct Merya, Muromian and Meshchera languages. The Permians are sometimes also …

Jul 03, 2022 · Proto-Balto-Slavic: *duwō (see there for further descendants) Proto-Celtic: *dwau (see there for further descendants) Proto-Germanic: *twai (see there for further descendants) Proto-Hellenic: *dúwō (see there for further descendants) Proto-Indo-Iranian: *dwáH (see there for further descendants) Proto-Italic: *duō (see there for further ...

The two language families probably evolved from a common ancestor, a phylogenetic Proto-Balto/Slavic language continuum. The earliest origins of Slavs seem to lie in the area between the Middle Dnieper and the Bug rivers, ... The Slavs, an eastern branch of the Indo-European family, were known to the Roman and Greek writers of the 1st and 2d ...