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( Balts)
Indo-European topics extinct Anatolian&_160;· Paleo-Balkans (Dacian,
Phrygian, Thracian)&_160;· Tocharian historical Anatolians (Hittites, Luwians)
Celts (Galatians, Gauls)&_160;· Germanic tribes
Illyrians&_160;· Italics &_160;· Cimmerians&_160;· Sarmatians
Scythians &_160;· Thracians &_160;· Tocharians
Indo-Iranians (Rigvedic tribes, Iranian tribes)&_160; The Balts or Baltic peoples (People who live by the Baltic Sea), defined as speakers of one of the Baltic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family, are descended from a group of Indo-European tribes who settled the area between lower Vistula and upper Daugava and Dnieper rivers on the southeast shore of the Baltic Sea. The number of lakes and swamps in this area isolated the Balts, and as a result of this isolation the Baltic languages retain a number of conservative or archaic features.[1] Among the Baltic peoples are modern Lithuanians, Latvians and Latgalians — all Eastern Balts — as well as the Prussians, Yotvingians and Galindians — the Western Balts — whose languages and cultures are now extinct.
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