Baltic languages

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Languages of the group
Historical survey
- Relationship between Baltic and Slavic
- Development of the individual Baltic languages
- Old Prussian
- Lithuanian
- Latvian
Characteristics of the Baltic languages
- Old Prussian
- Comparison of Lithuanian and Latvian
- Loanwords in Baltic
- Orthography

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