Balto-Slavic languages
The Balto -Slavic hypothesis assumes that from the (North) West Indo-European has just spun off a for - baltoslawische language that later aufteilte in a Baltic and Slavic group.
Advocates a common Balto- Slavic precursor
Closer or more linguistic relationship can be determined by different methods.
The linguistic evidence of a common Balto - Slavic precursor consist of shared isoglosses in the areas of phonology, morphology, lexicon and syntax. In this way, famous linguists have worked out such a common preform. Meier - Brügger takes far no statement referring to a research report of 1994.
Glottochronologischen studies despite different data bases and methods according to a baltoslavischen precursor - Alongside this exception all lexicostatistical and - with all due reservations.
Opponents of a Balto- Slavic precursor
Opponents of a common precursor derived from the similarities of alleged Isoglossengemeinschaft from ( so put it also Vladimir Toporov and Vytautas Mažiulis ). Baltic, Germanic and Slavic evolved than neighboring dialects of the north-western Indo-European.
The emergence of the Balto - Slavic hypothesis
As first remarked to Balto - Slavic ratio ( from a linguistic point of view) in the 19th century Thuringian linguist, August Schleicher, who taught and others a few years in Prague. He was through early death prevented further carry out his research and currently of the opinion of a long Balto - Slavic language unit after previous removal of the Germanic dialects. A contrary opinion was Antoine Meillet, for example. Between these two extremes lies the view by Jan Michał Rozwadowski, said Indo-European dialects would have indeed diverged in the early phase of the spin-off, but later converged again, and then the unmistakable similarities between the two language families would be due - without a Baltic- Slavic language unit had existed. A kind of Solomonic solution represented Jānis Endzelīns, who speaks of a Baltic- Slavic epoch, but not from the start.
Political influence on the Balto -Slavic controversy
You may also see the political situation influenced the dispute. For example, could be a close relationship between the Baltic and Slavic languages from the perspective of Soviet ideologues and Slavic nationalists of the incorporation of the Baltic states are considered in the Russian- dominated Soviet Union conducive. In contrast, the independence of the Baltic languages could be considered as good for the national independence.