Is Lithuanian the Oldest Language? - Olga Olina | PGO 2020

Lithuanian is the most conservative language of the surviving representatives of the Indo-European language family. Many Lithuanian words correspond in sound and meaning exactly to their cognates in Vedic Sanskrit, the language of scholarly elite of ancient India. Due to this, Lithuanian erroneously enjoys the fame of being the oldest language in the world. Though this statement is not accurate, Lithuanian has indeed retained a large number of grammatical features of the Proto-Indo-European, the common ancestor of more than 400 languages spoken on every continent of the world, and is hence of great importance to historical linguists. My talk will introduce you to some of the archaic grammatical features of Lithuanian. Additionally, I will cover some of its oldest written records and explain the basics of linguistic reconstruction.
Olga Olina is a huge language nerd and is currently mastering in Indo-European Linguistics at Humboldt University of Berlin. She has been tutoring various ancient languages over the past years - including Sanskrit, Hittite, Old Persian, Hieroglyphic Luwian and many more. Her current research topics include methods of script decipherment, philology of Old Lithuanian and metre patterns in Old Germanic poetry.
This video was recorded at the Polyglot Gathering Online 2020 (www.polyglotgathering.com/).

[@hfchow007]

Right at the beginning at 1:55, she already stated that Lithuanian is not the oldest language simply because all human languages, old and modern, keep evolving. Lithuanian just happens to have not changed as much as others, retaining more archaic or conservative features.

[@souldoc123]

Kevin Chow and need to add,that nation,only 3million ppl,has polonization and russianisation process,books in lithuanian was under the law in russian empire...

[@amjan]

....which makes Lithuanian as is today OLD.

[@stanislavostrovski2529]

Skanùs alùs (singular) - tasty beer Skãnūs ledaī (plural) - tasty ice cream (note in Lithuanian ice cream is always plural. To be more precise, Lithuanians don’t confuse these words skanùs and skãnūs because it is too obvious. But at the same time it is hard for the young generation to make a difference in the accentuation when they say: Màno mamà mãno (My mom thinks/is thinking). In this case young generation often pronounce màno (short ‘a’ = my) and mãno (long ‘a’ = thinks/is thinking) in the same manner. Like in many other languages happens, in Lithuanian as well the youth is tending to simplify and make the things easier. On another hand the best examples of how people are tending to simplify the grammar is the confusing and misspelling words with long and short vocals (a, ą, i, y, į, u, ū, ų, e and ę). When I went to school in eighties we learnt a lot about participles and we used to know them very well: jie buvo atėję (masculine form of buvo atėję = came) and: jos buvo atėjusios = feminine form of atėjusios = came). Nowadays you can see and hear just the only form jie, jos buvo atėję. I am not sure if it is still considered incorrect, but I have seen this phenomena of simplification even in the newspapers. The language is getting to become more simple and to be honest the accentuation probably is the most affected area of the language. And as a suggestion. In the Catholic Church of Lithuania all official books of Readings (Skaitiniai) for the Holy Mass and the Missal (Mišiolas) have all written accentuation in there. It is a very good thing to learn the language and read properly the ‘Royal’ Lithuanian. Good luck and thank you!

[@iclicklike3397]

Never heard anyone stressing mãno (think) any other way other than as expected. Some may have the stress not as pronounced, it is still there though. "atėję" use for both masculine and feminine is spoken regional feature i believe and i would expect to disappear, not the other way around.

[@LA-MJ]

Buvo atėję = had/were come

[@JH-pv6rd]

Aš asmeniškai, nesu girdėjusi jaunimo maišant atėję - atėjusios ar mano. Gal čia nuo regiono priklauso, bet bent jau Kaune nesu su tuo susidūrus. Iš kurios Lietuvos vietos esate?

[@druginys]

Čia panašu į kažkokią fantaziją. Niekad negirdėjau, kad jaunoji karta taip kalbėtų (Mano). Nebent kitataučiai arba kokie apsirūkę

[@daliusgudelis1358]

Nice lecture, Olga. About word "tasty". Its not a change, its singular or plural. Singular is short end skanùs; plural are long begining skãnūs.

[@lietuvimyleksavokalba2725]

Agree, probably Olga heard the childrens talk about ice cream which is in Lth always plural and masculine gender, that is "skãnūs" :)

[@mehcookie1379]

Skanus, skanūs. You understand this is Lithuanian.

[@Mindawga]

I believe Olga may have meant to say the difference between skanùs and skànus. Because skànus is something that is indeed is a shift of stress and is considered to be impropper grammar and is said by people from time to time. I think she just didn't say it clearly.

[@iclicklike3397]

@@Mindawga the stress change is part of dialect, not improper grammar.

[@LA-MJ]

@@Mindawga never heard anyone stress skánus in Kaunas. Seems far fetched. The typical mistake of Trakaī shows that the language is becoming anything but streamlined, i.e. reducing to stress on first syllable

[@fionaaiste7644]

Amazing video. As a lithuanian it was very interesting to see my language from science side. One thing. 32:40 When you said that young people stress syllables not in the text book way I don't think that it is mainly because language is changing. I am no expert but these are my thoughts. Just that text book lithuanian is not everyday spoken lithuanian. Different accentuation stems from different dialects which are still prominent in Lithuania. It is so hard for even lithuanians to learn accentuation because whole system is based on region and we learn language from our parents or grandparents so we grow up thinking that the way we speak is correct. When we meet with people from other cities our dialect becomes similar but the differences are still there.

[@marijusp]

Lithuanian has also many dialects and in everyday speech people (especially in rural areas) often speak differently from formal (official) language. Accentuation is especially diverse, and I would be hesitant to say, that if a person stresses the word differently it's necessary a 'mistake' - maybe it's just a local variant. For example, my hometown name by local people is stressed differently than textbooks and dictionaries suggest. And I don't think anymore that all the local people (who actually live there) are "wrong". Another thing, that in some dialects even more old features are preserved. For example in my dialect (Dzukian, e.g. South Lithuanian) we still say "in" instead of "į" (in English it would be "to"). So instead "Aš einu į mokyklą" ("I go to the school") we say "Aš ainu in mokyklų" or even "Aš ainu mokyklon". Also for the word "the Lake" older people still say "ažaras" (which is older form of the word) instead of "ežeras".

[@lithuanianjay]

woah i've never heard of this dialect in sounds kinda english lol

[@georgeowen2945]

I don't speak Lithuanian but I assure you Ezhero is much much older....

[@Rasytojas1980]

Dzukian is version of Aukstaitian Mokyklon is finnic illative case

[@GeneratorOfDarkness]

That was a great presentation. Thank you.

[@PolyglotGathering]

0:00 The prehistory of Lithuanian 9:31 The earliest Lithuanian writing; Protestant era Why is Lithuanian deemed ancient? 15:30 Lihuanian's writing system 17:15 Lithuanian lexemes 20:00 Archaic grammatical features 30:36 Q&A

[@GuidetteExpert]

How doesn't the statement not make sense that Lithuanian is one of the oldest languages? Not all languages evolve as fast as others... Icelandic for example has barley evolved. You just showed how similar Lithuanian is to Sanskrit and almost the same words so the statement that Lithuanian is 5000 old is true.

[@Abeturk]

Eğ-mek=to turn something the other way or to a curved shape> eğmek= to tilt/ to bend Eğ-al-mek=Eğilmek=to get being inclined/ to be bent over Eğ-et-mek=Eğitmek=to educate Eğir-mek=to make it turn to something or turn around itself by bending it =~ to spin Evir-mek=to make it turn upside or turn up in other way at a specified time =~to invert / to make something gets evolved Eğir-al-mek=Eğrilmek= to become a skew / to become twisted Evir-al-mek=Evrilmek= to get a conversion/transformation over time (evrim=evolution evren=universe) Uğra-mak= to get (at) a place or a situation for a specified time> uğramak= drop by/ stop by Uğra-eş-mak=to stop altogether by into each other for a specified time> uğraşmak=to strive/ to deal with Uğra-et-mak= uğratmak = to put in a situation (for a specific time) Öğre-mek=to get (at) a status or a level within a certain time Öğre-en-mek=to get (at) a knowledge or a knowledge level at a certain time> öğrenmek= to learn Öğre-et-mek=to make someone get (at) a knowledge - level (at a certain time)= to teach al =get et= make en=own diameter eş=partner mak/mek>(emek)=exertion /process Su=water /水 (Suv)=fluent-flowing Suvu> Sıvı=fluid, liquid Suv-up =liquefied (~soup) Suv-mak= to make it flow onwards/up (>sıvamak) Suy-mak=~to make it flow over Süv-mek=~to make it flow inwards Sür-mek= to make it flow ON something Sür-up(şurup)=syrup Suruppah(chorba)=soup Suruppat(şerbet)=sorbet meşrubat=beverage şarap=wine Süp-mek= to make it flow outwards / Süp-der-mek>süptürmek>süpürmek=to sweep Say-mak= to make it flow drop by drop (one by one from the mind) = ~ to count ~ to deem (sayı=number) (bilgisayar=computer) Söy-mek= to make it flow from the mind / Söy-le-mek= to make the sentences flowing through the mind =~to say, ~to tell Sev-mek=~to make it flow from the mind (to the heart) = to love Söv-mek=to say whatever's on own mind (~call names) Süy-mek= to make it flow through (Süyüt> süt= milk) Soy-mak= to make it flow over it/him/her ( to peel, ~to strip, ~to rob ) (Suy-en-mak)>soyunmak=to undress (Suy-der-mak)>sıyırmak= skimming, ~skinning Siy-mek= to make it flow downwards / to pee Siyitik>sidik= urine Sağ-mak= ~to make it pour down (Sağanak=downpour) Sağ-en-mak>sağınmak= ~to spill it from thought into emotions Sağn-mak>San-mak= ~to pour from thought to idea (to arrive at the idea) Sav-mak= ~to make it pour outwards (2.>put forward /set forth in) (sağan)=Sahan=the container to pour water (Sav-der-mak)>savdurmak>savurmak (Sav-der-al-mak)>savurulmak> savrulmak=to get (scattered) driven away (Sav-en-mak)>savunmak=to defend (Sav-en-al-mak)>savunulmak=to get being defended (Sav-eş-mak)1.savaşmak=to pour blood / to shed each other's blood (savaş= the war) 2.savuşmak=to get spilled around (altogether/downright)=(sıvışmak=~running away in fear) Süz-mek=~to make it lightly flow from up to downwards (~to filter, strain out) Sez-mek=~to make it lightly flow into the mind (~to perceive, to intuit) Sız-mak=~to get flowed slightly/slowly (~to infiltrate) Sun-mak=to extend forwards (presentation, exhibition, to serve up) Sün-mek=to expand reaching outwards (sünger=sponge) Sın-mak=to reach by extending upwards or forwards Sin-mek=to shrink (oneself) by getting down or back (to lurk, to hide onself) Sön-mek=to get decreased by getting out or in oneself (to be extinguished) Tan= the dawn /旦 Tanımak= to recognize (~to get the differences of) Tanılamak=tanı-la-mak= to identify / diagnose Tanışmak=tanı-eş-mak= to get to know each other =(to meet first time) Danışmak= to get information through each other Tıŋı= the tune (timbre) /调 Tıŋ-mak=to react verbally Tıŋı-la-mak= to get the sound out >(Tınlamak=~reacting /answering /~to take heed of) Tiŋ-mek=to get at the silence >(Dinmek= to calm down / to get quiescent Tiŋi-le-mek=to get the sound in >(Dinlemek= to listen / 听) Türkçe öğretiyorum =I am teaching turkish İngilizce öğreniyorsun = You are learning english Öğreniyorum = I am learning Öğreniyordum = I was learning Öğreniyormuşum=I heard/realized that I was learning Öğrenmekteyim=I have been learning / I am in (the process of) learning Öğrenmekteydim=I had been learning / I was in (the process of) learning Öğrenmekteymişim=I heard/noticed that I had been learning Öğrenirim = I get to learn ( ~ I learn henceforth) Öğrenirdim= I would learn /I used to learn bf (~I had got (a chance) to learn ) Öğrenirmişim=I heard/noticed that I would be learning ( I realized that I got (a chance) to learn) Öğreneceğim= I will learn Öğrenecektim= I would gonna learn (I would learn) Öğrenecekmişim=I heard/ realized that I would have to learn Öğrendim = I learned Öğrenmiştim= I had learned Öğrenmiş oldum= I have learned Öğrendiydim= I remember I had learned Öğrenmişim =I noticed that I've learned Öğrendiymişim=I heard that I learned -but if what I heard is true Öğrenmişmişim=I heard that I've learned -but what I heard didn't sound very convincing Öğreniyorumdur =I guess/likely I am learning Öğreniyordurum =I think/likely I was trying to learn Öğreniyormuşumdur=As if I was probably learning Öğreneceğimdir= I think that I will probably learn Öğrenecektirim=I guess/likely I would gonna learn Öğrenecekmişimdir=As if I would probably have to learn Öğrenecekmiştirim=Seems that I would probably be learned Öğrenmişimdir = I think that I have probably learned Öğrenmiştirim= I guess/likely I had learned 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰

[@theosib]

I really appreciate you making this video.

[@gvaiciulio]

Thank you for the lecture!

[@haroldasraz]

This is really fascinating video. Cheers.

[@arunasblazevicius6985]

Are you really interested in lithuanian language?why?do you like blonde lithuanian girls ...or have been fascinated by ithuanian movie Redirected?

[@ComprehensibleRussian]

Wow, that's a lot of work behind this presentation!

[@klpjolanta]

I learned something about my own language, thank you Olga !

[@MysliusLT]

It was very interesting to watch someone who was interested in Lithuanian language and how languages evolved in general. So much work put in and so much appreciation, simply amazing. Olga, never change. Ačiū.

[@exploringtheworld8780]

Спасибо,Оля !!!👍👍👍😊😊😊👍👍👍

[@Mindawga]

As a lithuanian I can confirm that this video checks out and is very very accurate

[@vadymmironenko7054]

Would Lithuanian be hard for a Ukrainian like myself ?

[@Mindawga]

@@vadymmironenko7054 it would not be easy but I also believe that it would not be that hard as Lithuanian and Ukranian does share a lot of similarities in terms of grammar, though it's not the same.

[@vadymmironenko7054]

@@Mindawga Hell no its not the same ! But, I think if I were to move to Lietuva for a few months, i PICK up language.. but not enough hryven to do this. What about Latviskas or Latvian ?

[@Mindawga]

@Vadym Mironenko ofc it's not the same or easy. It's a different languange from your own. I'm saying that the grammar rules are fairly similar. Idk about Latvian.

[@LA-MJ]

Correction: mostly checks out

[@sergeyprokhorov5170]

Ačiū labai!

[@fidenemini111]

Revisiting after few months I noticed that "sese" is not a proper version of Vocative from Nominative "sesuo". We can use a proxy word "vanduo" , and the Vocative is "vandenie". For "sesuo" a correct vocative is "seserie". For Vocative "sese" the Nominative is "sesė".

[@justas50]

great work. reg. 'skanus', I think you have heard 'skAnūs' as a plural form of 'tasty'; instead of skanUs, which is singular.

[@Tautas1123]

Very accurate and really good presentation.

[@ievakiltinaviciene7574]

Thank you for your video, was very interesting ❤

[@user-bw1hf9hg5e]

Вподобайка за відосик !

[@marekzalewski8654]

Good reaserch job done!👍

[@swayamsouravdash2433]

Where is Lithuania

[@andriuspetrosius9507]

Ačiū puikiai šnekate Lietuviškai ✌️👍😁

[@mehcookie1379]

Aš esu Lietuvė, tu iš Vilniaus?

[@manfredamann137]

very easy to understand your way ofdeclaring a sentence structure.

[@naujadiena]

33:09 skanùs and skãnūs (it is not a wrong pronunciation, it is different word forms!)

[@souldoc123]

may be non ltihuanian users cant understand,but if be very simple explain-skanùs-using for only only one,example skanùs obuolys,and skãnūs is used for 2,3,4...........skãnūs obuoliai...

[@AndreAs-su3ss]

Your research is wonderful. And you're beautiful!

[@rmnts]

yea, as a native lithuanian speaker I don't agree with example of "skanus" at all. "Skanūs" is plural and it is accentuated in the beginning of the word in the text books just like in everyday life.

[@UtamagUta]

yep, better examples would be for word "telefonas" ("telefònas" vs. "telêfonas"

[@iclicklike3397]

@@UtamagUta these are not shifts in stress over time or change in the language. These are regional differences.

[@LA-MJ]

@@UtamagUtagegužě not gègužė. The latter is just a mistake caused by the overzealous education

[@UtamagUta]

@@LA-MJ no, i just added an accent sign. We use these sticks to show the accent on the word.

[@LA-MJ]

@@UtamagUta I know about the ticks. I mean stress on first syllable in Nominative is wrong

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

Labai įdomi paskaita, ačiū :)

[@kierinmackenzie2096]

Thank you

[@linascharzevskis9944]

24:30 - "..and then you are done" :) it's like a quest on an role playing game - "do this and then do that. And then do this and afterwards do this and you are done!" And in result you get one word correct :D

[@charlesjohnson4634]

Very informative, good work! I'm still working on Russian. Always learning.

[@victorb976]

Is that the name of your master degree? Awesome :( I would've loved to study the field you are studying. I love ancient indoeuropean languages. Lucky you

[@kasas7979]

tnx. Good job. only didn't get about word "skanus". and in schools we learning in "modern Lithuanian" so we loosing speeches and different forms, words.

[@juratepu7611]

Ačiū!

[@rafalkaminski6389]

I wonder why the west pomerania in poland is considered as an ancient balt territory. Is there any place / river names that suggest that?

[@lokysaiw425]

RAFAL JEST U VAS TERITORII KTURE NAZIVAJONSE PO LITEVSKU BO BALTOVE MESKALI OD SAMEGO BERLYNA VAS VTEDI POLAKUV CI ZACHODNICH SLOVIAN BO VI JESTESCE IMI JESCE NEBILO BALTOVE SON AVTOCHTONI NA TICH TERENACH A VI PSISEDLISCE PUZNEI O CO NAIMNEI 1000 PUZNEI PANA FAMILJA LITEVSKA SAM TEGO NAPEVNO NE WIECE OTO PZSYKLAD WARSAVA VSISTKE KONCUVKI NA AVA JEST BALTOVSKE LITEVSKE I TAK CEBA ZAMENIC S NA Z I A NA U I PAC PAN CO VICHODZI WARZUVA TO MESTO GDZE ZGONIALOSE RIBE RIBA PO LIT ZUVIS OTO DLIA PANA NAZVI LITEVSKE PRUSKE JAK PAN CHCE. A NAKONT FAMILI JEZELI CEKAVO NAPISE JEZELI INTERESUJE

[@SionTJobbins]

Where is Olga from? What languages does she speak - English, German, Lithuaniam etc?

[@Daviddaze]

Ukraine . She studies archaic language, she has another video @ conference about sanskrit.

[@RussianFellow]

An interesting lecture, thank you! Lithuanian is ancient and interesting language.

[@RussianFellow]

And it is interesting for me: which language is harder to study--Russian or Lithuanian?

[@wokevswake]

@@RussianFellow lithuanian is harder , but russian is pretty hard too if you cant get the basic's

[@dorkwell]

This might be a good place to ask. As an Australian with a Lithuanian wife, what is the best approach to learning basic Lithuanian? I am struggling to wrap my head around the details, and I wonder if I might be better off simply learning phrases and core vocabulary before concerning myself with the theory behind it? Anybody with experience or advice here would be great ✌️

[@melvyngoodstein007]

Hello, have you found the ways to learn Lithuanian? I am interested in the same way.

[@richardlitwin4046]

Go to a Masonic Lodge and pester an Illuminatus to have you mind controlled with Lithuanian.

[@arunasblazevicius6985]

Hi.i see you are struggling.don't give up.i am lithuanian and if you have funny questions... don't be afraid.just ask ...even if it doesn't make any sence.skanus and skanūs....you see.... there is some difference.while skanus is singular...then skanūs.... are plurar.simples.

[@nadiacoppola164]

I d like to learn either this language or Latvian...still not sure which one I m basically trying to find out if there are immigrants communities in my area(Lithuanians or Latvians)...southern new jersey- Philadelphia area...so that I could practice when the time comes

[@kestutisvaiciunas8663]

Cool, but using the term "Oldest" is incorrect, since every language is the "oldest" (everyone had to speak SOMETHING, after all) The correct term it's the most "Intact" Proto-Indo-European language that hasn't changed much for 3000 years.

[@user-gj6br2ir4q]

Dope 👍

[@tomasbrazdeikis1679]

V.N.TOPOROV(r.i.p 2005)

[@petrkostiha6544]

The Lithuanian alphabet is identical to Czech! 🇨🇿🤝🇱🇹 💕

[@petrkostiha6544]

@@sltmdrtmtc What do you mean?

[@petrkostiha6544]

@@sltmdrtmtc Lithuanian has borrowed letters from Czech

[@petrkostiha6544]

@@sltmdrtmtc I don't get it

[@claymore9032]

This is amazing. I too started to learn sumerian Akkadian and Turkish.

[@valsingameto8052]

GERAS

[@edgarticas8719]

Labas! O kaip tu Adapted Latin grammar

[@godajancer2199]

I am from Lithuania. And for me English has got very difficult grammar.

[@rickoidas]

Im Lithuanian from Vilnius and I never heard that somebody say SKAnus shift in the first part of word🤨

[@guyvert49]

English also has remants of duel numbers - great- greater--greatest!

[@lolalily5626]

4:44 you said that Illyrian language is a dead language which is not true , Illyrian is spoken till today in the country of Albania

[@lvslaukiniai]

Nesutikčiau, kad lietuvių kalba yra suskilusi iš slavų kalbų, nes tarkim lietuvių kalba su ukrainiečių kalba neturi nieko bendro, o ukrainiečių, lenkų ir baltarusių ir senovės naugardo kalbos ir yra slaviškos arba tikriau senoves rusiškos, o va dabartinė rusijos kalba yra labai panaši i lietuvių kalbą, o žinant kad dabartinė rusų kalba kilusi iš Maskvos regiono kur anksčiau jokių šiuolaikinių rusų išvis nebuvo, galima daryti išvadą, kad dabartinė rusų kalba Maskvos regione susiformavo susimaičius Baltų kalbai su senovės rusų kalba tiksliau manyčiau kad butent po rasto priėmimo baltai perejo prie rusisko kalbos vartojimo.

[@antanasruzgas3996]

Su beveik viskuom sutinku išskyrus kad "rusų kalba panašesnė į lietuvių nei ukrainiečių į lietuvių". Kaip tik atvirkščiai. Puikiausiai moku rusiškai ir mokausi kitų kalbų, tarp jų ukrainiečių. Nemažai randu panašių į lietuvių kalbos žodžių ukrainiečių kalboje ir kaip patvirtinimas tam buvo patvirtinimas iš lietuvių kalbos kursų užsieniečiams, kurie su lietuviškom šaknim stengiasi čia pritapti. Tai ukrainiečiam lengviau mokytis lietuvių kalbos, nei rusams, nes kaip sakė patys besimokantieji, ukrainiečių kalba turi daugiau panašumų su lietuvių kalba. Ir nieko stebėtino, juk kažkada buvome bendrapiliečiais LDK.

[@slmngmnt]

Iš kur sugalvoti kad dabartinė Lietuvių kalba paši į Maskviečių kalbą? Totali nesąmonė! Absoliučiai nepanašios kalbos, gramatika ir t.t.

[@lvslaukiniai]

@@slmngmnt pasirink bet kurį žodį ir rasi analogą. Veter - Vętra, Žemė - Zemlia, Saulė - Solnca ir taip 80 proc. o kiti žodžiai aiškiai matyti atėję ir kitų kalbų ir taip dažnai dar naudojami kelių kalbų atitikmenys tai pačiai reikšmei.

[@pauliusnarkevicius9959]

Why Balto-Slavic, but not Balto-Germanic? just by similarities?

[@pauliusnarkevicius9959]

Probably it depends by each person individually and their heritage.

[@user-jm3xl7rg5k]

And why not Balto-Slavo-Germanic??

[@pauliusnarkevicius9959]

@@user-jm3xl7rg5k You are smart. By dodging Slavo-Germanic in the Way.

[@igarioxxx]

well you ok understand

[@igarioxxx]

you are super

[@bordoraux9537]

It's not placed 7 on the list. The order is arbitrary. According to that list, it's indeed the oldest one, along with Tamil

[@infinite5795]

It also mentions Sanskrit as the 1st oldest, with Tamil in the 2nd position not Lithuanian.

[@user-rl5yf5ql9d]

Калi ласка зробите субтитры на беларускай мове, мне вельмi тяжка зрозумець пра што вы там гаворыте

[@pandapandaoneone]

Pretty good for a non lithuanian speaker

[@simaspetronis5024]

im lithuanian so hi or labas

[@mariusrutkaus]

I'd really disagree on the changing stress. I'm quite sure that things are changing but this example was not correct. Right now i can't come up with a better example but if I will, I'll come back here. Also I'll ask my grandma, she was a Lithuanian language teacher for more than 40 years so she should know these cases if they exist.

[@kajuzee]

Lietuviai laikinkite! :)

[@antanasruzgas3996]

"Laikinti" didžiarusiškai imperinei propagandai? Visų pirma nebuvo jokių taip čia vadinamų "balto-slavų".

[@ugnikalnis]

Thank you for your hard work! As an Native speaker here are mistakes, I won't repeat Skanus n etc. I just gonna say Lithuanian is not easy to learn, it's more harder than oldest Scandinavian language Icelandic or Finnish it's way more harder, it's a tough journey to break all your tongue n mouth muscles.

[@rafalkaminski6389]

It has many words common with sanskrit :)

[@zenthious666]

Got a great grandfather that fled communism from Vilnius, papa can say some stuff but that's it. Sounds so angry =o lol

[@mahanpathak24]

Actually, the Indo-European languages have a very confusing history which is not convincingly deciphered yet. Most of the world changed and histories were wiped out or heavily overshadowed as the cultural and faith systems arising from the middle-east (Christianity & Islam) took over the world. The only place that still follows the old language and culture is India and the Hindus. The oldest authentic scripture in IE language pool are the Hindu Vedas that are considered at least 5000 years old. Lithuanian and Latvian are considered very close to Sanskrit. However, interestingly the Sanskrit Vedas talk only about ancient Indian geography and nothing else. They also speak about a big war (Dāśarājñá yuddhá) of the ancient world where ten Kings (tribes) participated. The one tribe than won remained in india and the country is named after that tribe . That is the start of the Indian history. The rest of the nine tribes were exiled. The Parsu tribe went westwards and became the Persians. Rest eight went somewhere. Their faith remains unknown. However, the genetic marker R1a1 (Aryan marker) is traced from the stepps to India. This becomes confusing and controversial. The best explanation is that R1a1 movement and the movement of the IE languages are actually two completely different phenomena and rather opposite of each other. So the IE languages might have originated in India.

[@AbhishekTiwari1111]

Vedic Sanskrit is the oldest according to a majority of scholars.

[@idraote]

"oldest attested" and no, that would still be mycenean Greek.

[@AbhishekTiwari1111]

@@idraote Mycenean Greek is Europe's oldest. Search about the Bogazkhoi Vedic inscriptions of Turkey.

[@idraote]

@@AbhishekTiwari1111 non verified claims. Besides, my point still stands: "oldest" doesn't make any sense. "oldest attested" does.

[@AbhishekTiwari1111]

@@idraote oldest attested? Here i got this from internet. Even though the date of Vedic Sanskrit is undermine by biased western scholars they can't ignore it's lithic evidence. Proto Indo European is an eyewash term opined by European scholars to place a mythical language prior to Vedic Sanskrit, we don't have any single evidence of the existence of so called PIE language. Sanskrit is a standardized dialect of Old Indo-Aryan, originating as Vedic Sanskrit as early as 1700-1200 BCE. One of the oldest Indo-European languages for which substantial documentation exists, Sanskrit is believed to have been the general language of the greater Indian Subcontinent in ancient times. Mycenaean is the term applied to the art and culture of Greece from ca. 1600 to 1100 B.C. The name derives from the site of Mycenae in the Peloponnesos, where once stood a great Mycenaean fortified palace. Mycenae is celebrated by Homer as the seat of King Agamemnon, who led the Greeks in the Trojan War.

[@idraote]

@@AbhishekTiwari1111 internet must be used with discernment. And if you're really interested in a topic, like you appear to be, you should rather use universally acknowledged university textbooks. Finally, it would be great if people would stop complaining about biased Western scholars. Any scholar can be biased, everywhere in the world, and I can assure you there is no Western agenda about belittling Indian culture.

[@lunarmothcat]

If you in nominative say 'sesuo' then in vocative you can't 'sese' - you have to say 'seserie' And if in vocative you say 'sese' then in nominative you have to say 'sesė' That's a grammar mistake

[@lilithwulf]

Baltic prussian is not an extinct language, there are several native speakers in the world today

[@jokubass4718]

It doesn't make language alive. And only small amount of vocabulary is saved.

[@lilithwulf]

@@jokubass4718 what do you mean only a small amount of vocabulary is saved? There are plenty of words enough for people to think and speak in it every day in their homes. Prūsiskan ast arwi giwā bilā!! Be tū assei plemplēms, as arwiskai ni waīda...

[@jokubass4718]

@@lilithwulf There is 800 words german/prussian dictionary written in 1400, 55 pages of cathecism written in 1561. And few other smaller texts.

[@jokubass4718]

@@lilithwulf You can speak Prussian?

[@lilithwulf]

@@jokubass4718 Jā, as māka bilītun prūsiskai! : )) wirdeins.twanksta.org/ here is dictionary where you can learn : ))

[@iclicklike3397]

22:25 haha

[@sarasvelniukas3735]

, u can learn lithuanian instantly :D u joking ??? girl its really funny :D it means that u nead learn much more about Lietuvių kalbą :D

[@igarioxxx]

SKAAAAAANUS MEANS MULTIPLY IF ,,,,,BUT....BUT skanus means tasty....buen prev,....io

[@eglevaitkutevideosmusic8693]

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[@VilmaMare]

Skanu, skalsu = tasty

[@miglius1992]

Well you still are pointing out that it is the oldest of all the language today... it is the oldest language alive today, so oldest #1.

[@reeb3687]

there is no such thing as an old language; languages constantly change, and the 'age' of a language is more based on the name of a language itself. a lithuanian speaker would certainly be unable to understand a single word of the ancestor language of 5000 years ago.

[@1965vinu]

Lady the idea of indoneuropean language itself is a doubtfully.one as it's a lot of hypothesis . Also look at the influence of the language between the aries areas you speak about and it seems that nobody is looking at direction . Also loonat geography , the region you say is the area where language developed were more affected by ice age and the tropics where qwthwr was more suitable for habitation and communication would be a probable area of birth of these as humans lived in these areas and where more comfortable to develop communication.

[@SlaviSokol]

What about the Tamil language ? You should compare Lit. to Tamil.

[@SlaviSokol]

@@sltmdrtmtc Also it is considered as very antient. If Lithuanian is so old it should have some Tamil in it.

[@igarioxxx]

just prenaunc

[@artursbondars7789]

Not true. There are ancient features in latvian languge to and slavic languges developed more later than baltic languges. And baltic prussian is not a dead languge. Latvian language has even more similarities with sanskrit than lithuanian, and even more latvian and prussian languges have unique gramatical features not found in other languges.

[@letsspeakhungarian6626]

Did you know that a group of linguists from the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics of Sorbonne University decided to conduct an antiquity exam of the several languages? With a help of modern technologies and necessary tools scientists decided to establish which languages has preserved the most ancient elements of literacy and has the most etymons (the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived). According to the results: modern English contains 4% of etymons, Latin 5%, Hebrew 5%, the Pacific languages 7%, Indian languages 9%, Tibetan Sanskrit 12%, ancient Turkish and Turkmen 26%; however the language that contains the most of etymons is modern Hungarian - 68%!

[@Rasytojas1980]

Because finno ugric did not change much?

[@naujadiena]

"conservative features"

[@sarunasl7929]

Balts never existed till mentioned first time in mid 19th century. This is like speaking about roman empire calling them Italy.

[@keralanaturelover196]

TAMIL

[@richardlitwin4046]

I spoke with this girl and it seems that bingo puffa blacktype stealthy take.

[@misanek007]

You studied many languages, but you still sound German. The mother tongue is the mother tongue, nobody can disown their mother.

[@Valgant]

How can she "sound german" if she's Russian?! Her mother tongue is Russian, not German. It's just she can speak many languages including German.

[@maritza507]

A lot of scientists, linguists, archaeologists, historians etc. are considering that 8,500 years ago, Romania was the heart of the old European civilization. The new archaeological discoveries from Tartaria, (Romania), showed up written plates older than the Sumerian ones. More and more researches and studies converged to the conclusion that the Europeans are originated in a single place, the lower Danube basin. Down there, at Schela and Cladova in Romania have been discovered proves of the first European agricultural activities which appear to be even older than 10,000 years. Out of 60 scientifically works which are covering this domain, 30 of them localize the primitive origins of the man-kind in Europe, where 24 of them are localizing this origin in the actual Romania, (Carpathian- Danubian area); 10 are indicating western Siberia, 5 Jutland and/or actual Germany room, 4 for Russia, 4 for some Asian territories, 1 for actual France area and all these recognisied despite against the huge pride of those nations. Jean Carpantier, Guido Manselli, Marco Merlini, Gordon Childe, Marija Gimbutas, Yannick Rialland, M. Riehmschneider, Louis de la Valle Poussin, Olaf Hoekman, John Mandis, William Schiller, Raymond Dart, Lucian Cuesdean, Sbierea, A. Deac, George Denis, Mattie M.E., N. Densuseanu, B.P. Hajdeu, P Bosch, W. Kocka, Vladimir Gheorghiev, H. Henchen, B.V. Gornung, V Melinger, E. Michelet, A. Mozinski, W. Porzig, A. Sahmanov, Hugo Schmidt, W. Tomaschek, F.N. Tretiacov are among the huge number of specialists which consider Romania the place of otehr Europeans origines and Romanian the oldest language in Europe, older even than Sanskrit. According to the researchers and scientists, the Latin comes from the old Romanian (or Thracian) and not vice versa. The so called "slave" words are in fact pure Romanian words. The so called vulgar Latin is in fact old Romanian, or Thracian language, according to the same sources... The arguments sustaining the theories from above are very numerous and I don't want to go into them so deeply as long as the forum is and has to remain one languages dedicated, to. In the limits of the language, please allow me to present a list of just a few (out of thousands of words), which are very similar/ even identical in Romanian and Sanskrit: Romanian numerals : unu, doi, trei, patru, cinci, sase, sapte...100=suta Sanskrit numerals: unu, dvi, tri, ciatru, penci, sas, saptan...100 = satan then Romanian Sanskrit acasa acasha (at home) acu acu (now) lup lup ( wolf) a iubi (considered slave) iub (love) frate vrate (brother) camera camera (room) limba lamba (tongue) nepot napat (neffew) mandru mandra (proud) lupta lupta (fight) pandur pandur (infanterist) nevasta navasti (wife) prieten prietema (friend) pranz prans (lunch time) Ruman Ramana (Romanian) saptamana saptnahan (week) struguri strughuri (grapes) vale vale (valley) vadana vadana (widow) a zambi dzambaiami (to smile) umbra dumbra (shadow) om om (man-kind) dusman dusman (enemy) a invata invati (to study) a crapa crapaiami (to break something) naiba naiba (evil) apa apa (water) and not AQUA like in Latin. It looks like aqua came from apa and not the other way around... and so on for more than thousand situations... According to M. Gimbutas, the confusion Roman (Romanian as in original language) = Roman (ancient Rom citizen), is generated by the fact that Romans and Romanians have been the same nation, the same people. The Dacians/Thracians and Romans have been twins. The illiterate peasants called Romanians, Ruman and not Roman. Why do they call so? Because RU-MANI, RA-MANI, RO-MANI, API, APULI, DACI and MAN-DA , VAL-AH are all synonyms expressing the person from the river banc or from the river valley. APII could be found under the form of mez-APPI in the ancient Italy, under he same name as the APPULI Dacians. APU-GLIA, (or Glia Romanilor in Romanian - Romanian land) can be found with this meaning only in Romanian (Glia= land) In the Southern side of Italian "booth" exists the first neolitical site of Italy and it is called MOL-feta. The name itself has Romanian names, according to Guido A. Manselli: MOL-tzam (popular Thank you), MUL-tumire (satisfaction), na-MOL (mud); MOL-dova (province and river in Romania, Za-MOL-xis, Dacian divinity. Manselli said that this archaeological sit is 7,000 years old and has a balcanic feature. I came up with this topic just to hear decent opinions and not banalities like those of a few days ago when while surfing for a language forum, I read all kind of suburban interventions. This topic is for people whith brain only.kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5mnfoqjfLR1qKM

[@TarebossT]

For God sake, stop embarrassing yourself!

[@walentino999]

cosmin duca Сan you see the difference? Where in Lithuanian, where in Sanskrit ?: 1. ***Kas tvam asi? Asmi svapnas tava tamase nakte. Agniṃ dadau te śradi tada viśpatir devas tvam asi. ***Kas tu esi? Esmi sapnas tavo tamsioj nakty. Ugnį daviau tau širdin, tada viešpatis dievas tu esi. 2. ***Dievas davė dantis, Dievas duos duonos ***Devas adat datas, Devas dasyati dhanas

[@UgnineLape]

@@walentino999 exactly. And the numerals in Sanskrit and Lithuanian (vienas, du, trys, keturi, penki, šeši, septyni...) sound much more similar than Sanskrit and Romanian :D

[@zymantesa]

I mean in this video she said that comparing how similar the words are in chosen languages is not a proper way to study their "age" and after that she compared grammar features. I do not know Romanian and its grammar so I can't compare but your whole comment falls apart after this statement.

[@Fummy007]

Short answer: no

[@fidenemini111]

You are not funy any more.

[@alexvalea6916]

Proto-Indo-European is a fancy made-up thing. There was no such thing most likely, unless we ignore how languages work completely

[@reeb3687]

yeah unless it was used by a small single group of people who migrated into a single area before dispersing, it is a little odd to call it a single language when in reality it couldve been many related dialects who kept a close enough contact to each other that they didnt diverge to any unintelligible degree until they entered europe/the caucuses

[@alexvalea6916]

The oldest language surviving in close-to-original form is Sanskrit.

[@Arissef]

Traditionally Vedic Sanskrit, not classical Sanskrit to be more precise.

[@reeb3687]

its really strange to me when people call one contemporary language older than another because thats not how languages work. this comment is more accurate because vedic sanskrit was preserved in its ancient form while its descendants are contemporary. what makes a language old isnt that it "just has old roots"; languages are always changing. what makes a language old is how long ago it was spoken. that is to say: ancient greek is old; modern greek technically has no age, and this is the same with vedic sanskrit in comparison to its modern-day descendants. a book while it is being written has no age. a book that was written 50 years ago has an age of 50. thankyou for pointing this out.

[@spakainasf1]

Haha , I love how self important germans are , ‘’I am speaking from berlin university ‘’ imedeatly projecting authority . And ofcourse in their head there is no way some lithuanian can be any special.

[@Daviddaze]

She is from ukraine, enjoing free german college, studying linguistics

[@VilmaMare]

Germans studied Lithuanian language first, but no way it is of Germanic Indo-European branch or section! Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian are dying languages, therefore desperate hipes...

[@Arissef]

None of the three languages are dying. You must be confusing something. Did you perhaps mean "Ainu" in Japan or "Irish" in Ireland?

[@WitcherDAD]

The oldest language proved with writing is Slavic , older than Sumer over 1000 years . Check out Vinca Culture in Serbia and Romania and tablets from Tartaria dated on 5300 BC . People of the Sea - Etruscan and Philistines used also Slavic runes , the same like Thracians. Follow Y -DNA R1a1a1 - M417 and other haplogroups from M* and will lead you to India (Brahmini -Vends , the same name like Slavic tribe in Europe - Veneti , Vendelichi , Venedy , Wends , Wenedowie ) , Pakistan and Afghanistan . Iran was also part of India for long time . Tamil People from Nepal are from Brahmin (Aryans) . No other languages in the world like Indian Sanskrit and Slavic are more similar and connected by blood. Just translate from Polish 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 to Indian and use speaker how they sounds both , or ciocia (aunt) , siostra (sister) or brat (brother) and hundreds other words. Today by the old Vedic schools speaks around 700 mln people. Man from Oleni Ostrov (6400 BC )

[@supermania2488]

:))))))))

[@fidenemini111]

There is no such language.

[@ashoknayaki7776]

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[@lonelyhetaliafangirl4936]

Tbh, Lithuanian is more like a dialect of Bulgarian. As a native Bulgarian speaker, whose best friend is Lithuanian, we once compared our languages and we noticed many similarities. Here are some examples: ENG - I run. BG - Az byagam. LT - Aš bėgam. ENG - Three beast crawl quickly by the white sea. BG - Try zvyara burzo lazyat kray byaloto more. LT - Trys zverys bruožos sliauzia prie baltu mariu. Perhaps Lithuanian has descended from “Old Church Slavonic” (which is actually Old Bulgarian), just like Russian did.

[@supermania2488]

Old Church Slavonic has descended from Lithuanian :)

[@remigijuslukauskas4517]

LT - bėgu.

[@remigijuslukauskas4517]

LT - Aš bėgu.

[@Artur_M.]

You should really watch the video before commenting. Lithuanian (Baltic languages in general) and Slavic languages have a common ancestor which linguists call Proto Balto-Slavic, and Proto Indo-European before that. Lithuanian is just quite conservative, retaining most archaic features making it more similar to those common ancestors. That's what this video is about.

[@supermania2488]

@@Artur_M. I know the history of my nation and language very well. Anyway, I was joking because the question was stupid.

[@kauliukzmogis]

I never ever heard anyone in Lithuania saying "skɑːnus". That is very false example. It sound very unnatural. Unless you mean plural which stresses beginning of the word, but also elongates last "u" (skanūs).

[@rajendradangi2585]

Huh!! Before Christ(BC) Of course!!!

[@rajendradangi2585]

Inaccurate map. South of India don't have indo-european language at all. And this obsession of western people to find one origin of everything from God to physical world is utter nonsense and flowed most of the time. This obsession most probably has theological basis( time is straight line like with origin and ending) like God created this world.

[@arunasblazevicius6985]

Skanus ir skanus.when is written it looks the same.i am lithuanian.it depends on emphasis.even emphasis in both ways on u... it depend how you pronouce that u.if it short ... it is singular.if it long ... it is plurar.