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- proper noun The reconstructed ancestor of the Baltic languages, descended from
Proto-Balto-Slavic .
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In any case, the preservation of a few striking archaisms (as in Lithuanian) is completely irrelevant; Lithuanian and Latvian are both descendents of Proto-Baltic, which was presumably spoken a couple of millennia ago and which itself descended from Proto-Indo-European a couple of millennia before that -- so what sense would it make to say Lithuanian (or, for that matter, Latvian) is somehow "older" than other European languages?
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