Explore Balto through 10+ example sentences from English. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Context around Balto
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Balto
- In this selection, "balto" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, proto, speakers, common, slavic, marginalized and remake stand out and add context to how "balto" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against a balto slavic group and area of balto slavic dialectic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "balto" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with balto
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Although most verbs have Balto-Slavic origins, pronouns, prepositions and some verbs have wider, Indo-European roots. (17 words)
There has been no agreement regarding which archeological formation such hypothetical Proto-Balto-Slavic community would correspond to. (18 words)
YouTube comments on the trailer, and people are all saying it’s a ‘Balto’ remake,” screenwriter Tom Flynn tells The Post. (21 words)
The most linguistically well-grounded and widely accepted is from the Proto-Balto-Slavic root *mŭzg-/muzg- from the Proto-Indo-European *meu- "wet", (Russian) main citation citation so the name Moskva might signify a river at a wetland or a marsh. (42 words)
The traditional view is that the Balto-Slavic languages split into two branches, Baltic and Slavic, with each branch developing as a single common language (Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic) for some time afterwards. (34 words)
An expedition pulled by dogs sets off which, however, gets lost and it is Balto, marginalized by the other dogs because he is half a wolf, who finds the sled and the medicines. (33 words)
Example sentences (14)
History collapsible main seeAlso Common roots and ancestry Area of Balto-Slavic dialectic continuum (purple) with proposed material cultures correlating to speakers Balto-Slavic in Bronze Age (white).
An expedition pulled by dogs sets off which, however, gets lost and it is Balto, marginalized by the other dogs because he is half a wolf, who finds the sled and the medicines.
YouTube comments on the trailer, and people are all saying it’s a ‘Balto’ remake,” screenwriter Tom Flynn tells The Post.
Although most verbs have Balto-Slavic origins, pronouns, prepositions and some verbs have wider, Indo-European roots.
Finally, there is a minority of scholars who argue that Baltic descended directly from Proto-Indo-European, without an intermediate common Balto-Slavic stage.
However, some linguists – Meillet, Klimas, Zinkevičius – oppose this view, providing arguments against a Balto-Slavic group, and explaining those similarities by one or several periods of close contacts.
Likewise, Albanian has taken the old relative jos and innovatively used it exclusively to qualify adjectives, much in the way Balto-Slavic has used this word to provide the definite ending of adjectives.
Shared features with Balto-Slavic languages, on the other hand (especially present and preterit formations), might be due to later contacts.
The Baltic languages show a close relationship with the Slavic languages, and are grouped with them in a Balto-Slavic family by most scholars.
The dative was common among early Indo-European languages and has survived to the present in the Balto-Slavic branch and the Germanic branch, among others.
The most linguistically well-grounded and widely accepted is from the Proto-Balto-Slavic root *mŭzg-/muzg- from the Proto-Indo-European *meu- "wet", (Russian) main citation citation so the name Moskva might signify a river at a wetland or a marsh.
There has been no agreement regarding which archeological formation such hypothetical Proto-Balto-Slavic community would correspond to.
The traditional view is that the Balto-Slavic languages split into two branches, Baltic and Slavic, with each branch developing as a single common language (Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic) for some time afterwards.
This would imply that Proto-Baltic, the last common ancestor of all Baltic languages, would be identical to Proto-Balto-Slavic itself, rather than distinct from it.