Other Indo-European languages distantly related to Sanskrit include archaic and Classical Latin ( 600 BCE – 100 CE, Italic languages), Gothic (archaic Germanic language, c. 350 CE), Old Norse ( 200 CE and after), Old Avestan (c. late 2nd millennium BCE) and Younger Avestan ( 900 BCE). The closest ancient relatives of Vedic Sanskrit in the Indo-European languages are the Nuristani languages found in the remote Hindu Kush region of the northeastern Afghanistan and northwestern Himalayas, as well as the extinct Avestan and Old Persian – both are Iranian languages. Sanskrit belongs to the satem group of the Indo-European languages.