Records of the Old Prussian language therefore survive; along with little-known Sudovian, these records are all that remain of the West Baltic language group.
32.
"' Proto-Slavic accent "'is closely related to the accentual system of some Baltic languages ( Proto-Balto-Slavic period.
33.
This implies that, until around the time of the earliest Slavic expansion, Slavic was a conservative language not so different from the various attested Baltic languages.
34.
Some old orthographic systems of Slavonic and Baltic languages used " " and " s " as two separate letters with different phonetic values.
35.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states saw a revival of scientific and cultural interest in extinct Baltic languages and tribes, including Old Prussian.
36.
The Baltic languages, however, are only known from the 2nd millennium AD . They are known to have developed in tribal contexts, as they were originally tribal.
37.
After Slavic and Baltic languages diverged -also evidenced by etymology -the Early Slavs interacted with Iranian peoples and merged elements of Iranian spirituality into their beliefs.
38.
Latvian is a Baltic language and is most closely related to Latgalian and New Curonian, which are mutually intelligible with Latvian, should be considered varieties or separate languages.
39.
The Baltic languages are of particular interest to linguists because they retain many archaic features believed to have been present in the early stages of the Proto-Indo-European language.
40.
This would imply that Proto-Baltic, the last common ancestor of all Baltic languages, would be identical to Proto-Balto-Slavic itself, rather than distinct from it.
