Balts
The Balts or Baltic peoples (Lithuanian: baltai, Latvian: balti) are an ethno-linguistic group of peoples who speak the Baltic languages of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Countries with a predominantly Baltic population | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 6.5–7.0 million (including the diaspora) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Lithuania | 2,397,418 |
| Latvia | 1,175,902 |
| Languages | |
| Baltic languages | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism and Protestantism; minority Eastern Orthodoxy and Baltic neopaganism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Slavs | |
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One of the features of Baltic languages is the number of conservative or archaic features retained. Among the Baltic peoples are modern-day Lithuanians and Latvians (including Latgalians) — all East Balts — as well as the Old Prussians, Yotvingians and Galindians — the West Balts — whose languages and cultures are now extinct.
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