BALTIC LANGUAGE

Baltic language group is the family of languages and idioms spoken in the south-eastern area of the Baltic sea, in particular in the Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia where they are official languages respectively the Lithuanian and the Latvian. It was attested the "old Prussian language" went extinted since the XVII century AD as member of the Baltic languages family, related to the Slavic languages and both are part of the Satem P.I.E. european languages families together with the indoiranians and indoarians languages and some Uralic dialects.

Baltic languages have always been spoken by the Balts people: firstly attested in a public document dating 1369 AD, they are witten on left-to-right orizzontally with a latin Alphabet used for the first time in written translated lutheran Catechism in XVI century AD, when Balts were included in the Prussy Duchy ruled by the Hohenzollern dinasty under the Reich Empire dominion. The Lithuanian language adopts its own alphabet of 32 letters and includes many local dialect corresponding to the originary Lithuanian tribes of Samogitians and Aukštaitija, but it is not spoken anymore in the immense area controlled by the Lithuanian Great Duchy ruled by the lithuaniana Jagelloni dinasty, while the Latvian language uses its own alphabet of 33 letters and includes Curonian, Latglian and Livonian dialects spoken by specific originary Balts tribes still existing.

Cause of the Balts diaspora and the events of the history of european integration, Baltic languages are spoken in several states of Europe and are official languages of the European Union, while many emigrants still keep them alive in the world especially in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

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