Baltic languages

This article is about a branch of the Indo European language family. For the Sino Tibetan language, seeBalti language.

Baltic
Ethnicity:	Balts
Geographic distribution:	Northern Europe
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Baltic
Subdivisions:	Western Baltic † Eastern Baltic Dnieper Baltic †
ISO 639-5:	bat

TheBaltic languagesare part of theBalto-Slavic branchof the Indo-European language family. Baltic languages are mostly spoken in the Baltics, around the Baltic sea.

Branches

There are three branches of Baltic languages. Two areextinct.

Western Baltic languages †

• (Western)Galindian†
• Old Prussian†
• Sudovian(Yotvingian) †
• ?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)
• Lithuanian(~3 million native speakers)
• Selonian†
• Semigallian†
• Old Curonian(sometimes considered Western Baltic) †

Dnieper Baltic languages †

• (Eastern) Galindian (the language of theEastern Galindians,also known by its name inUkrainian:Голядь,romanized:Golyad') †

(† –extinct language)