The distant ancestors of balts used to be finnic.
Thus finnic (western uralic) is older.
Ilumetsa Põrguhaud meteorite crater aka Põrkunes / Põrunu / Põkku happened over 7000 years ago. And Tsõõrikmäe even 9500 years ago.
The uralic part of indo-uralic sprachbund is older (more archaic) than the IE part.
Ye but Balto-Slavic language group. Also we retain way more archaic roots. Lithuanian is very close to sanskrit, making Lithuanian an (kinda) ARYAN language.
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u/GrazhkeSAMOGITIAN WARLORD 🏰⚔️🏴☠️ (illiterate barbarian)1d ago
Don't forget that finno-ugrics were the later migrants
u/GrazhkeSAMOGITIAN WARLORD 🏰⚔️🏴☠️ (illiterate barbarian)1d ago
Than Balto-Slavic tribes descended from the Corded ware culture. Yamnaya were there about 6k years ago, while Finno-Ugrics showed up in the area around 4k years ago
Genetics and language are two different things. Finnic is a branch within the Uralic language family. The Finnic part developed around the Gulf of Finland, mostly around present-day Estonia, it didn't show up here.
Language and genetics don't arrive at the same time.
Quite the contrary.
The distant ancestors of balts used to be finnic.
The river Väina of Väinamaine (Väinämöinen) started from the Polotsk Ice Lake.
And the egghills of Hukuandi (Ugandi) were watered by Ilmatar (ice lake Ilmen) during Meltwater Pulse 1a about 14700 years ago.
Balts have no recollection of that. Finnics do remember.
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u/Mand372 larping as Nordick 1d ago
At least Estonia is older along with the languadge.