Curonian was a Baltic language; some scholars consider it to have been an Eastern Baltic, intermediate between Latvian, while others like Vytautas Ma ~ iulis classify it as Western Baltic.
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In his book " " Die Sprache der alten Preu�en " " ( The language of the Old Prussians, 1845 ), he suggested the term " Baltic languages ".
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On the most central questions of Slavic scholarship, he believed that in ancient times the Slavic and Baltic languages had a common ancestor and he always stressed this common Balto-Slavic bond.
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"' Lituanus "'is an English language quarterly journal dedicated to Lithuanian and Baltic languages, linguistics, political science, arts, history, literature, and related topics.
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In Baltic languages the name for this constellation is "'Sietynas "'in personified as a benevolent brother who helps orphan girls to marry or walks soldiers along the fields.
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This material has been of particular value in Indo-European studies as, like the Baltic languages, it is considered by scholars to be notably conservative, reflecting elements of Proto-Indo-European religion.
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The eventual expansion of the use of Slavic languages in the south and east, and Germanic languages in the west, reduced the geographic distribution of Baltic languages to a fraction of the area that they formerly covered.
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Sudovian was very similar to and mutually intelligible with the archaic Old Prussian language, as stated in the introduction to the 1st Old Prussian Catechism ( printed in K�nigsberg 1545 the 1st Baltic language book ):
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"' Selonian "'was a Baltic language spoken by the Eastern Baltic tribe of the Selonians, who until the 15th century lived in Selonia, a territory in South Eastern Latvia and North Eastern Lithuania.
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A Proto-Balto-Slavic language is reconstructable by the comparative method, descending from Proto-Indo-European by means of well-defined sound laws, and out of which modern Slavic and Baltic languages descended.
