Part of a set of two volumes looking at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, area and historical perspective, this work provides surveys of language groups in order to bear witness to the immense language diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages.

1. Part 0: Introduction; 2. The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume (by Dahl, Osten); 3. Part 1: Survey of selected Circum-Baltic languages and language varieties; 4. The Latvian language and its dialects (by Balode, Laimute); 5. The Lithuanian language and its dialects (by Balode, Laimute); 6. Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area: Urban Russian of the 19th century (by Cekmonas, Valeriy); 7. Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area: Rural dialects (by Cekmonas, Valeriy); 8. Swedish dialects around the Baltic Sea (by Rendahl, Anne-Charlott); 9. The Finnic languages (by Laakso, Johanna); 10. Part 2: Early history of the Circum-Baltic languages; 11. The origin of the Scandinavian languages (by Dahl, Osten); 12. Baltic influence on Finnic languages (by Larsson, Lars-Gunnar); 13. Part 3: Contact phenomena in minor Circum-Baltic languages; 14. The role of language contact in the formation of Karelian, past and present (by Pugh, Stefan M.); 15. Syntactic code-copying in Karaim (by Csato, Eva Agnes); 16. Yiddish in the Baltic region (by Jacobs, Neil G.); 17. The North Russian Romani dialect: Interference and Code Switching (by Rusakov, Alexandr Yu.); 18. On some Circum-Baltic features of the Pskov-Novgorod (Northwestern Central Russian) dialect (by Cekmonas, Valeriy); 19. Appendix; 20. Name index; 21. Language index; 22. Subject index