Baltic or Slavic: Closer to Germanic?

[Dombra]

Slavs are clearly closer to Germanics by DNA according to this DNA map.

LV is Latvia, PL is Poland, CZ is Czech republic, RU is Russia.

Clearly Latvia is much furtherr by DNA than the Slavs are.

It´s about linguistics, not genetics!

[justme]

Baltic, in fact I don't understand how Baltic language is related to Slavic language when if you look at a Baltic paragraph and a Slavic paragraph with the same translating they look completely different like alien to each other.

[JeanBaMac]

Baltic languages of course. Old Prussian language had the same word endings than Gothic and Burgundian, and share many common loanwords (e.g. Old Prussian sinteinan , Gothic shandeinan).
Just compare : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrfw...EkVAujChaXu6p7
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-Bk43uRVM

Baltic, in fact I don't understand how Baltic language is related to Slavic language when if you look at a Baltic paragraph and a Slavic paragraph with the same translating they look completely different like alien to each other.

Both Baltic and Slavic are satem languages since Germanic is centum and somewhat influenced by Italo-Celtic.

[SKYNET]

Both Baltic and Slavic are satem languages since Germanic is centum and somewhat influenced by Italo-Celtic.

what about albanian, is it satem or centum?

[Rugevit]

Slavic has a layer of ancient Germanic obtained from east Goths. Latvian had a lot of Germanisms which they removed replacing them with neologisms.

The degree of similarity between Baltic and Slavic languages is at the same level or closer than the that of west Germanic and north Germanic. That's how Baltic and Slavic languages are really close despite being in separate branches of the Indo-European languages. Hence, they are commonly referred to as Balto-Slavic languages. It's not only Slavic and Baltic languages share many cognates, the structure of the languages are similar too: 7 cases, declensions, both are highly inflected and other linguistic features. Both are satem languages.

Judging by this diagram based on common vocabulary obtained from a published study Baltic is marginally closer than Slavic