LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Baltizmai; Baltų kalbų plotai; Hidronimai; Oikonimai; Periferiniai baltų dialektai; Hydronyms; Oiconyms; Peripheral Baltic dialects; Territory of Baltic languages; Words of Baltic origin.
ENApproximately 2000 years BC the Baltic culture was spread in the territory of present Pskov, Moscow, Kursk, Kiev and Warsaw and occupied the area of nearly 900,000 sq km. During the period of four thousand years the arcas of the Balts decreased mostly in the cast (then in the south). In all the area of present Belarus the Balts lived till the 7th-9th centuries (the rise of Kiev Russia and the baptism of the Slavs) when the language border went near Pskov, Polock, and Minsk. The border of the Lithuanian and Belorussian languages in the 14th-16th centuries went as far as Druja, Pastovys, Smurgainys, Valažinas, Naugardukas, Shchutin and Grodno (the area of the Balts occupied 150,000 km2). In this area or m its languages islands people also spoke Lithuanian in the 17th-20th centuries, and now the dialects of Apsas, Kamojys, Gervėčiai, Ramaškonys, Pelesa-Rodūnia and other multilingual Lithuanian dialects are still alive. In Belarus there are about 2,000 both oykonims and antroponyms (surnames) that are of Baltic origin. Mostly they are place names with Lithuanian suffixes. According to the number of their spreading they can be divided into 3 groups […]. [From the publication]