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The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Europe. Together with the Slavic languages, they form the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European family.
- Eastern Baltic
The East Baltic languages are a group of languages that...
- Western Baltic
The West Baltic languages are a group of extinct Baltic...
- Proto-Baltic
Proto-Baltic (PB, PBl, Common Baltic) is the unattested,...
- Curonian
Classification. Curonian was an Indo-European language of...
- Dnieper Balts
Map of the Dnieper river basin. The Dnieper Balts were a...
- Sudovian
In addition to similarities in the scarce material in the...
- Eastern Baltic
Baltic languages, group of Indo-European languages that includes modern Latvian and Lithuanian, spoken on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and the extinct Old Prussian, Yotvingian, Curonian, Selonian, and Semigallian languages. The Baltic languages are more closely related to Slavic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian (in that order) than to the ...
There are three branches of Baltic languages. Two are extinct. Western Baltic languages † (Western) Galindian † Old Prussian † Sudovian †? Skalvian † (unattested) Eastern Baltic languages. Latvian (~2.2 million speakers, whereof ~1.75 million native speakers, 0.5 million second language speakers) Latgalian (150,000–200,000 speakers)
- Western Baltic †, Eastern Baltic, Dnieper Baltic †
- Northern Europe
views 1,898,756 updated. Baltic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The Indo-European subfamily to which the Baltic languages appear to be closest is the Slavic. Because of this, some linguists regard Baltic and Slavic as branches of a single Balto-Slavic division of the Indo-European family.
The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European branch, [1] which points to a period of common development and origin.
