What is Balto-Finnic languages?
{{Infobox language family | name = Balto-Finnic | map = Balto-Finnic languages.png | altname = Finnic | ethnicity = [[Baltic Finnic peoples|(Balto-)Finnic]] | region = Northern [[Fennoscandia]], [[Estonia]], Northwestern [[Russia]], [[Latvia]] (extinct) | familycolor = Uralic | fam2 = [[Finno-Permic languages|Finno-Permic]]? | protoname = [[Proto-Finnic language|Proto-Finnic]] | child1 = [[Northern Finnic languages|Northern Finnic]] | child2 = [[Estonian language|(North/Standard) Estonian]] | child3 = Eastern Estonian–[[Votic language|Votic]] | child4 = [[Livonian language|Livonian]] (extinct) | child5 = [[South Estonian]] | glotto = finn1317 | glottorefname = Finnic | ancestor = | glottoname = | notes = }} The '''Balto-Finnic''', or often simply '''Finnic''', languages are a branch of [[Uralic languages]]. They are spoken in Northeastern [[Europe]] around the [[Baltic Sea]], mainly in [[Finland]], [[Estonia]], and Northwestern [[Russia]]. The main two languages in the branch are [[Estonian language|Estonian]] and [[Finnish language|Finnish]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of European peoples |volume=1 |year=2006 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |page=888 |chapter=The languages of Europe |isbn=9781438129181 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfv6HKXErqAC&pg=PA888 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=Ruhlen1991>{{cite book |title=A Guide to the World's Languages: Classification |last=Ruhlen |first=Merritt |year=1991 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=0-8047-1894-6 |page=69 |chapter=Uralic-Yukaghir |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYwmDE3f6wUC&pg=PA69 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Finnic languages| ]]