2018/12/31 by Frederik Kortlandt · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Linguistics and language evolution #Historical and Archaeological Studies #Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies #Slavic languages #Period (music) #History #Baltic sea #Ancient history #Geography #Classics #Philosophy #Geology #Oceanography
paper · doi:10.15388/baltistica.53.2.2338
openalex publication_date 2018/12/31 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
There is little or no evidence for a period of common West and East Baltic innovations after the period of common Balto-Slavic developments before the separation of Slavic from the Baltic languages. The terms “Proto-Baltic” and “Proto-Balto-Slavic” refer to the same thing, and Slavic may alternatively be called “South Baltic”. The opposite view is taken by Miguel Villanueva Svensson (2014) and Eugen Hill (2016). Here I specify the differences which underlie the disagreement.