How similar are the Slavic and Baltic languages?

[Bezprym]

https://alternativetransport.wordpre...2015/05/05/34/

I am not sure about it being 100% accurate.

[Neon Knight]

I am not sure about it being 100% accurate.

Neither am I but at least he gives his reasoning.

[Hevo]

was Kaliningrad and Belarus Baltic Slavicized areas?

Eastern Prussia was probably a mixture of Balts, Slavs and migrants from the West like Germany and The Netherlands.(Although i don't know if they mixed with the Balts/Slavs significantly in Eastern Prussia.

Belarusians are Eastern Slavs with significant Baltic substrate. The Baltic tribe Yotvingians lived in NW/W Belarus before the Slavs.

[Ülev]

Because real slavic language belong to I2a South-Slavic people. They brought it to Scyto-Sarmatian lands like Portuguese to for example Mozambique or English their language to Tanzania or Ireland.

Who were taught it from Slavic Bible (made by Cyril and Methodius) have more common vocabulary. This is why Russian is close to Macedonian etc. This is why Polish is far away.

Slavic people say "mnogo" (a lot/much) in Czechia or Russia.

Polish and Balts use word "dużo" -pl. "daudz" - Latvia (daudz vairāk - much more), or daug - Lithuania.

[Ülev]

but yes Russians have more common with Lithuania when it goes about pronunciation, the same "language melody"

[catgeorge]

[Mikula]

Anyway, relationship between Slavic and Baltic languages is recognizable just for linguists.
As a Czech I can understand text written in another Slavic languages (at least partly), some better
(Polish, Sorbian), another with big difficulties (Bulgarian),
but Baltic languages - Lithuanian or Latvian, I cannot understand (almost) anything without learning ones.

[Ülev]

Anyway, relationship between Slavic and Baltic languages is recognizable just for linguists.
As a Czech I can understand text written in another Slavic languages (at least partly), some better
(Polish, Sorbian), another with big difficulties (Bulgarian),
but Baltic languages - Lithuanian or Latvian, I cannot understand (almost) anything without learning ones.

But for Poles I think it is easier, especially Latvian one, but their "russian melody" in pronunciation!!

listen for example here

http://www.delfi.lv/news/national/po....d?id=47901629

[Antimage]

Keep in mind this is lexical similarity only. Otherwise finno ugric languages are unrelated to indo european ones.

[AphroditeWorshiper]

Territories where Kaliningrad is located were Baltic, Slavic and Germanic in its history.



Belarus was not Baltic, at least not whole.

PS. Slavic and Baltic languages have common roots but are not much similar to each other.

I make this question after I saw this image