baltic and slavic and indo european the vast majority of indo europeanists accept baltic as a valid single clade within indo european see the various stammbaum offered in all the modern introductory texts on indo europeanfortson clackson etc the notion that there was no baltic clade is not supported within the mainstream indo european literature the whole section modern interpretation is not based on modern accepted indo european scholarship but is a wp fringe position from the s it is not accepted in the st century by the vast majority of indo europeanists fortson indo european language and culture mallory adams the oxford introduction to proto indo european and the proto indo european world szemer nyi introduction to indo european linguistics beekes comparative indo european linguistics schmalsteig the baltic languages the indo european languages ed ramat ramat clackson indo european linguistics baldi an introduction to the indo european languages etc all support baltic as a clade this is the mainstream position and the baltic is not a clade is a minority view and to give it an entire section violates wp undue