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Baltic

branch of the Indo-European language family
Language language_family Q33136
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Summary

Baltic is a language family[1]. Baltic ranks in the top 6% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,876 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: Balto-Slavic[3], Indo-European[4]
  • Commons category: Baltic languages[5]
  • Has part(s): West Baltic[6], East Baltic[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Baltic languages[8]
  • Topic has template: Template:Baltic languages[9]
  • Different from: Proto-Baltic[10]
  • Studied by: baltistics[11]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BAT[12]

Why It Matters

Baltic has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] Baltic is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Louis Hjelmslev

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i73098
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06958441-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47826|batch #47826]]: OEWN"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4W1oMc
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002984-baltske-jazyky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002984-baltske-jazyky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
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