[Dievas]

Lithuanian and Latvian languages are not Slavic and not Balto-Slavic. I made a deep esearch and I can say that both Baltic languages are definitely not Slavic, not even close, and neither Balto-Slavic. They should be separated into a very early separation branch similar to Armenian. There are very few Slavic-sounding words in both Baltic languages and those words were borrowed in near modern times. All other words (99,999999%) in both Baltic languages don't even remind of any Slavic language. There are words that sound Arabic, Franco, Latin, Greek, even English and Italiamn and even Pacific, but very few Slavic words and those "slavic" words could have been original Baltic words borrowed by Slavs from the Balts. Please CHALLENGE me and prove that Baltic languages belong in the Balto-Slavic group and not in Baltic group from the very beginning of Sanskrit and even before that.

[elc]

Welcome to FR. I think.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Estonian is related to Finnish (Ugric).

Are you an expert in the field. Most reliable sources consider Latvian and Lithuanian to be Slavic (includes Balto-Slavic--the most encompassing definition of the term).

[Slings and Arrows]

The southernmost point in Canada is south of the northernmost point in California.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Como?
Wat?
Was?
Ce qui ?

[Petronski]

Sounds like something a Slav might say.

[Clemenza]

Anyone with family from that part of the world already accepts this as obvious.

Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians are NOT Slavs, nor is their language, although their remains a large Slavic population (in the form of Russians and Poles) in Vilnius.

[jeddavis]

Near as I can tell, that is correct. Lithuanian has a dozen or so words you could call IE roots, almost certainly borrowed, and 99.999% of the language looks like it came straight from Mars. Calling it an IE language is wishful thinking.

[martin_fierro]

[grjr21]

Thailand ?

[SunkenCiv]

The Latvian language
The Latvian Institute

The Latvian language belongs to the Baltic group of the Indo-European family of languages. Its closest and only living relative is Lithuanian (the Latvian is non-Slavic and a non-Germanic language). Latvian has inherited a lot from the Indo-European proto-dialects, and as well as Lithuanian, it has preserved a lot of archaic features in its sound system and grammar. The Baltic tribes arrived in their present territory in the third millennium BC. The split between Latvian and Lithuanian proto-dialects took place in the sixth and seven centuries AD. The formation of the common Latvian language began during the 10-12th centuries. Today traces of tribal dialects can be found in three main dialects and more than 500 vernaculars of the Latvian language, which exist along with the highly standardised form of Latvian. Typologically Latvian is a fissional, inflectional language. Latvian nouns have 7 cases, verbs may inflect for tense, mood, voice and person. There is also a rich system of derivational affixes. The order of clause constituents is relatively free. The majority of speakers distinguish between two tones or intonations in long syllables. Latvian stresses the first syllable of each word and vowel length may occur in an unstressed syllable.

see also estonian finno-ugric

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