Balts

::For more information on Germans inhabiting the shores of the Baltic Sea see Baltic Germans

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Baltic Sea - Baltic Germans

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The Balts or Baltic peoples (Latvian: balti, Lithuanian: baltai), defined as speakers of one of the Baltic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family, are descended from a group of Indo-European tribes who settled the area between lower Vistula and upper Dvina and Dneper. Because of geographical isolation, the Baltic languages retain a number of conservative or archaic features. Among the Baltic peoples are modern Lithuanians and Latvians as well as the Prussians, Yotvingians and Curonians, whose languages were extinct in the Middle Ages.

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Latvian - Lithuanian - Baltic languages - Indo-European language - Indo-European - Vistula - Dvina - Dneper - Lithuanians - Latvians - Prussians - Yotvingians - Curonians - Middle Ages

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