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Language code: bat

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bat

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The table below provides technical details for the Baltic languages language, designated by the bat code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

bat

Name

Baltic languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
East BalticWest Baltic
Related languages
RussianPolishBelarusianUkrainianCzech
Key facts
Forms one of the two branches of the Balto-Slavic groupEast Baltic contains living tongues such as Lithuanian and Latvian, while West Baltic is represented only by extinct languages like Old PrussianBaltic languages preserve archaic Indo-European traits such as pitch accent and, in Lithuanian, the dual numberThey have rich inflectional morphology with up to seven noun cases and extensive verbal conjugationThe first written records of any Baltic language appear relatively late (14th century), so much of their early history is reconstructed by comparative linguistics.
Sample phrase

Labas, kaip sekasi?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Baltic languages language, identified by the code bat, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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