[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Theodoric

I'd say that Latvian like, Sanskrit, has a common ancestor in Indo-European, but not that Latvian descended from Sanskrit. Languages descended from Sanskrit are the modern-day languages of northern India.

I stand corrected for my loose terminology However there is talk of a tribe in northern India who have light skin and blond hair

PS An almost totally irrelevant aside. When I was a young lad, the inhabitants of Latvia were known, in English, as Letts and the corresponding adjective was Lettish. No doubt such irregular names became too confusing and someone decided to regularise them.

We are still known as Letts in parts of Europe, especially Germany.