These are therefore not direct evidence for the existence of a common Balto-Slavic family, but they do corroborate it.

Some examples of words shared among most or all Balto-Slavic languages:

A similar development happened in the Balto-Slavic languages.

Balto-Slavic circumflex emerges in all the other syllables, and these are:

Not all specialists in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics accept Winter's law.

Dybo is known for his reconstruction of Balto-Slavic accentuation, the first ever attempted.

It is often used in Balto-Slavic languages.

Final nasals are not directly preserved in most Balto-Slavic languages, however, making evidence mostly indirect.

They have found nearly 800 hydronyms of possibly Baltic or Balto-Slavic origin.

In the latter part of his scholarly career, Otkupshchikov focused especially on the Balto-Slavic research.

Kortlandt's chronology, on the other hand, includes six stages after the Balto-Slavic period:

This is because all such stems had Balto-Slavic acute register in the root, which can only occur on long syllables.

He became known for his work on Balto-Slavic philology and Slavic folk poetry.

The North Germanic and Balto-Slavic languages tend to be more peripheral members.

Shared features with Balto-Slavic languages, on the other hand (especially present and preterit formations), might be due to later contacts.

Long rising and falling tones continue Balto-Slavic acute and circumflex, respectively.

Matasović (2008) lists the following scenario as the most probable origin of Balto-Slavic acute:

Proto-Indo-European phonology has exhibited several significant changes in Balto-Slavic period:

No Balto-Slavic language has preserved them, but relative chronology of sound changes shows that they were not lost at once in all positions in a word.

Later on, several lexical, phonological and morphological dialectisms developed, separating the various Balto-Slavic languages from each other.

Some Balto-Slavic languages also retain traces of the free PIE accent.

Despite these developments, Slavic remained conservative and was still typologically very similar to other Balto-Slavic dialects.

Other marks used within Balto-Slavic and Slavic linguistics are:

Long falling (ȃ): This normally indicates the Balto-Slavic circumflex accent.

The Balto-Slavic languages are most often divided into Baltic and Slavic branches.