July 24, 2026

Speakers of which Indo-European language family are concentrated in Lithuania and Latvia, but despite geopolitical grouping, Estonia's national tongue does NOT belong to it because Estonian is a Finnic language of the Uralic family?

A Baltic languages
B Slavic languages
C Finnic languages
D Germanic languages

Modern speakers of the Baltic languages are mostly in Lithuania and Latvia; Lithuanian is closely related to Latvian, though the two are not mutually understandable. Estonia is grouped with the Baltic states for geopolitics, but Estonian is a Finnic language and not one of the Baltic languages.

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