The Baltic branch is sometimes divided into two sub-groups: Western Baltic, containing only extinct languages Eastern Baltic, containing both extinct and the only two surviving languages: Latvian and Lithuanian.

The Baltic languages belong to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Baltic languages are spoken by the Balts, mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.. Scholars usually regard them as a single language family divided into two branches: Western Baltic (containing only extinct languages) and Eastern Baltic …

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to western and southern Eurasia.It comprises most of the languages of Europe together with those of the northern Indian subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau.Some European languages of this family, such as English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Danish, Dutch, and Spanish, have expanded through colonialism …

Ro­mance, Ger­manic, Baltic, Slavic, Hel­lenic, and Celtic lan­guages all be­long to the Indo-Eu­ro­pean lan­guage fam­ily, and the top-level fam­ily of branches of non-Indo-Eu­ro­pean lan­guages is al­ways given in paren­the­ses (ex­cept for Basque, which is a lan­guage fam­ily it­self).

01/08/2017 · However, their numbers have since gone down. About 44% of the country's citizens who registered a different primary language could converse in Swedish in 2012. Being considered as a sub-branch of Indo-European and a North Germanic language, Swedish is closely related to German, Danish, English, and Norwegian languages.

The work of linguists falls into two main areas: language structure and language use. Linguists interested in language structure consider the formal properties of language, including word structure (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), speech sounds and the rules and patterns between them (phonetics and phonology), and meaning in language (semantics and pragmatics).