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BALTO-SLAVIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages
Synonyms:
Balto-Slavic; Balto-Slavic language; Balto-Slavonic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Balto-Slavic" is a kind of...):
Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Balto-Slavic"):
Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic; Slavonic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages)
Baltic; Baltic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European)
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