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BALTIC LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baltic language mean? 

BALTIC LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun BALTIC LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. 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 Europeanplay

  Familiarity information: BALTIC LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BALTIC LANGUAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Baltic; Baltic language

Hypernyms ("Baltic language" is a kind of...):

Balto-Slavic; Balto-Slavic language; Balto-Slavonic (a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Baltic language"):

Old Prussian (a dead language of the (non-German) Prussians (extinct after 1700); thought to belong to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)

Lithuanian (the official language of Lithuania; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)

Latvian; Lettish (the official language of Latvia; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)


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