Dominating Balts instead of slavs

would it be possibler that Balts would dominate instead of Slavs ?
Or werent they numerous enough ?
With a POD around 0 AD
 
With a PoD at 0 AD you can't diferentiate a Slav from a Balt. The language groups started to go their separate ways around this time but the division would not be completed for another 500 years. These two groups settled different habitats and the habitat Balts ended in did not have the capacity for growth in the same way Slavs did. It is very unlikely Balts could do what OTL Slavs did without a very different set of events but than neither Slavs would be Slavs or Balts would be Balts.
 
what about a similar language, like the slavic and baltic language are quite different. maybe the slavic language could stay more baltic ? I mainly want to have a language similar to baltic, instead of slavic, not saying slavic isnt a beautiful language, but baltic languages deserve something too :) I mean, i know the language would not be 100% same, but still would it be possible that either the people who are going to be the Balts, migrate southwards, were they found various kingdoms and such? like slavs did ?
 
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Could be done but then you would have to switch the starting points of Slavs and Balts and quite likely Baltic languages would end up sounding like OTL Slavic due to Germanic, Iranian, Turkic and Romance influences and Slavic languages would end up sounding like the OTL Baltic.

Short of a plague of some king or mass death among the slavic speakers there is very little chance Balts could get to be ATL Slavs.
 
my scenario would be like this:
grey means i am not certain what language there should be yet. Some People who spoke the proto baltic-slavic language migrate south, etablish there a kingdom starting out from pannonia. Their language while adopting some germanic, dacian or celtic substratum (i have a 100 AD POD) should be similar to modern baltic languages, especially lithuanian. It should be noted that dacian shows resemblances with baltic especially lithuanian.
 
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