Ingerladic languages

The Ingerladic languages are a branch of the Anglic language family spoken natively, from the Polar Ocean to the Twilight Sea. The term "Ingerladic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Luidius in 1807.

Scholars usually regard them as a single subgroup divided into two branches: Western Baltic (the only living language of which being Norvenish) and Eastern Baltic (containing at least six living languages, the largest of which are Fabian and Ridder). The range of the Ingerladic linguistic influence once possibly reached as far as Johansylvania, but this hypothesis has been questioned.

Norvenish, a Western Baltic language, has possibly retained the greatest number of properties from Proto-Anglic.

Although related, the most Ingerladic languages have lexicons that differ substantially from one another and so the languages are not mutually intelligible. Relatively low mutual interaction for neighbouring languages historically led to gradual erosion of mutual intelligibility; development of their respective linguistic innovations that did not exist in shared Proto-Ingerladic, the substantial number of false friends and various uses and sources of loanwords from their surrounding languages are considered to be the major reasons for poor mutual intelligibility today.