Which of these are the only remaining Baltic languages?
The Lithuanian language is a Baltic language. It is from Lithuania, spoken in a few countries in Europe, as well as in the Americas and Australia.
Lithuanian and Latvian are the only remaining Baltic languages. Both languages have many things in common. Lithuanian, however, adopted fewer words and phrases from German and other languages. However, long ago Lithuanian was affected by the Slavic languages, so the main barbarisms were replaced with Lithuanian words only in 1920, by Lithuanian philologist Jonas Jablonskis and others.
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Renata Beall
I believe they mean that some migrants speak their native tongue over here.
buhlemann
"Barbarisms?". I remember when Canadian French was "cleansed" of foreign words and became "more French" than European French. Example: "Metro" for subway was replaced by "chemin de fer souterrain" back in the 1950s. (it may not be that way now). Also, how does the author classify Livonian?
earlepg
I was bracing for some difficulty when reading the question. Then I read the options and got considerable relief. And then I read the name of the author and experienced total relief (a common progression when the "Fab Four" are involved).
Merri Sillery
skullfire, source and names?
Janet Crew
spoken in AUSTRALIA?? Really?? I am Australian and never heard that before.
skullfire
Wrong, there are 3,this question should be removed.
Julie Allen
Baltic languages, group of Indo-European languages that includes modern Latvian and Lithuanian, spoken on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and the extinct Old Prussian, Yotvingian, Curonian, Selonian, and Semigallian languages. The Baltic languages are more closely related to Slavic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian (in that order) than to the other branches of the family.