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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 [1][2] 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.
Old East Slavic, developed into modern East Slavic languages. Old Ruthenian. Polabian language. Pomeranian language, only Kashubian remains as a living dialect. South Slavic dialects used in medieval Greece. Baltic. Curonian. Old Prussian. Galindan.
The Slavic languages reflect well the thematic verbs of the 3rd person formants -t: -nt, something that cannot be found in the Baltic languages. [58] Unlike the Slavic languages, the Baltic languages use the suffix -no-to form participles. Unlike the Baltic languages, the Proto-Slavic language had a sigmatic aorist with the suffix -s-.
Latvia. The Balts or Baltic peoples (Lithuanian: baltai, Latvian: balti) are a group of peoples inhabiting the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea who speak Baltic languages. Among the Baltic peoples are modern-day Lithuanians (including Samogitians) and Latvians (including Latgalians) — all East Balts — as well as the Old Prussians, Curonians ...
Balto-Slavic language tree. [citation needed] Linguistic maps of Slavic languagesSince the interwar period, scholars have conventionally divided Slavic languages, on the basis of geographical and genealogical principle, and with the use of the extralinguistic feature of script, into three main branches, that is, East, South, and West (from the vantage of linguistic features alone, there are ...
The East Baltic branch primarily consists of two extant languages— Latvian and Lithuanian. Occasionally, Latgalian and Samogitian are viewed as distinct languages, though they are traditionally regarded as dialects. [1][2] It also includes now-extinct Selonian, Semigallian, and possibly Old Curonian. [3]
The number of speakers as a first or second language (L1 and L2 speakers) listed are speakers in Europe only; [nb 1] see list of languages by number of native speakers and list of languages by total number of speakers for global estimates on numbers of speakers. [citation needed] The list is intended to include any language variety with an ISO ...
The only languages securely classified as West Baltic are Old Prussian and West Galindian, which could also be a dialect of Old Prussian. [5] Most scholars consider Skalvian to be a West Baltic language or dialect. [2] Another possible classification is a transitional language between West and East Baltic. [6]: 16