Limguisitc approach, of course! Ih terms of linguisitc approach these are of course related as you say. I should have thought about it earlier 8bangs her head agisnt the wall *ouch* ;-) )

Anyway, since we;re talking languages here, since this group is also covering Baltic cultires, I wanted to ppoint out to one curiosity. Baltic lingusitics know TWO Blactic languages -Latvian and Lithuanian. It is said tht Estonian is related to Finnish and such is not actually counted in the group. Which I find strange. Perhaps our group linguists can have a say on this? Anyone? ;-)