Proto-Balto-Slavic

The hypothetical Balto-Slavic language group consists of the Baltic and Slavic language subgroups of the Indo-European family. The grouping is due to a reconstructed Proto-Balto-Slavic dialect continuum or just common langue traits accuaired by close contact of speakers of ancestral langues.There is some debate as to the nature of the reconstruction among linguists. Opinons range from an actual genetic unity to a more incidential "period of common language and life" with the strong similarities due to prolongued language contact or even total original separation.
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