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... At present there are about 300 millions Slavs on the world and a mere 5 million Balts. It is quite possible that in the past the number of these peoples was about equal. They have always been close relatives. But did they ever speak the same language?August Schleisher maintained that one of the first two big branches of the Indo - European tree represented Germanic, i.e. what was to become the German, English, Swedish, Danish, Norvegian, Dutch and Icelandic languages, and Balto - Slavic. That means there was a time when the Balts and Slavs spoke the same language - Proto - Baltic - Slavic. Later, this proto language diverged into Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian and a great number of Slavic languages. Today it is difficult to know exactly how it all happened, but there is no doubt that the Baltic and Slavic languages possess a lot of similarities. There are scalars, however, who maintain that these similarities have been produced due to the proximity of their land and the similarity of their living conditions. It is quite possible that in past the Balts and Slavs could even understand each other's language like Swedes and Norwegians or Czechs and Slovaks do today. Now the Balts and Slavs cannot understand each other since their languages have become too different. Linguists, however, do not consider them to be very different, for on the basis of certain phonetic regularities they can establish similarities between seemingly different words. Let us consider the Russian word ucho and the Lithuanian word ausis 'ear'. What do they have in common? Meaning? Yes, but there is something more to it. Linguists will tell you that the Russian u was derived from the older diphthong au, ch from s. The same regularities can be observed in the Russian suchoi and the Lithuanian sausas 'dry'.The Lithuanian language has retained the old sounds while the Slavic languages have lost them. That us why in order to understand the development of Slavic languages, philologists often fall back upon Lithuanian. (http://postilla.mch.mii.lt/Kalba/baltai.en.htm)

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Do you know anything about history or gods of balts and slavs? Do you know who is vels/veles? Who was Knjaz Sviatoslav? We think you dont know it... But a lot of people know about scandinavian culture and histore, sure it's very interesting too, but they dont know anything about OUR great ancient culture! By creating this profile we'll start to post bulletins and blogs about baltoslavic culture, traditions, history etc. *** Profile managed by Volgast & Mormaeglin (Chorny Woron)

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The Living Slavs

..TR> The Living Slavs There are a lot of myths about slavic speaking people, especially russians that they are terrible asiatic mongrels. I recomend you to read this anthropologycal art...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:50:00 GMT

Baltoslavic Heritage 8 : Balto-Slavic languages

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 continu...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:46:00 GMT

Baltoslavic Heritage 7 : Latvija (Latvia)

******Latvia (IPA: /ÈlætviY/) (historically Lettonia, or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or Latvijas Republika, Livonian: LemM), is a country in Northern Europe. Latvia...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:52:00 GMT

Baltoslavic Heritage 6 : Polish - Russian relations - Wladimir Putin about Poland


Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:27:00 GMT

Baltoslavic Heritage 5 : Perun/Peruknas

In Slavic mythology, Perun (with many spelling and pronunciation variants among modern Slavic languages) is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of thunder and lightning. His other attributes w...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:01:00 GMT

Baltoslavic Heritage 4 : Old Prussians (Prksai)

The Old Prussians or Baltic Prussians (German: Pruzzen or Prußen; Latin: Pruteni; Latvian: Pr----i; Lithuanian: Pr--sai; Polish: Prusowie) were an ethnic group, made up of the Baltic tribes that inhab...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:45:00 GMT

Baltoslavic Heritage 3 : The Battle of Kosovo (>A>2A:8 1>X)

"The Battle of Kosovo was a military loss to the Serbs. They lost country, language, and hopes. Yet from this loss came the epic poems of Serbia, the stories of their past. I feel that this loss of a ...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:02:00 GMT

Baltoslavic Heritage 2 : Romuva

Romuva is a modern religious community of the indigenous Baltic religion practiced by the Lithuanian people prior to their Christianization. Romuva is an ethnic religion community that claims to conti...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:12:00 GMT

Baltoslavic Heritage 1 : Legend of Lech, Czech and Rus

According to an old legend, Lech, --ech and Rus were eponymous brothers who founded the three Slavic nations:Poland (poetically also known as Lechia),Bohemia (--echy  now the major part of the Czech ...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:08:00 GMT

The Tale of Igor’s Campaign

The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Slovo o pl--ku Igorev--) is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language and tentatively dated to the end of 12th century.It is also occasionally transla...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:02:00 GMT