It is said that Lithuanian is the most conservative Indo-European living language, meaning listening to Lithuanian is the closest you can get to Proto-Indo-European by speaking a living language.

@duesen756

2 жыл бұрын

I heard that Latvian and Lithuanian linguists were able to hold a small conversation with Sanskrit speakers that worked perfectly well

@marieljackman1850

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe when it comes to the nominal system, even though they erased the neuter nouns. When it comes down to the verbal system, Greeks maintain it better ( more conservative ). Also, some other Indo -European languages are more conservative in terms of some other aspects.

@marieljackman1850

2 жыл бұрын

@@duesen756 Same happens with Greeks.

@viperking6573

2 жыл бұрын

@@marieljackman1850 ancient greek you mean?

@marieljackman1850

2 жыл бұрын

@@viperking6573 Modern Greek.

If you ask me, Baltic is one of the most underrated language families in Europe

@sdominik3945

2 жыл бұрын

i love that there are many similarities with the slavic languages, especially because i speak one. very interesting and unique languages

@mist_minion692

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@jokemon9547

2 жыл бұрын

@@sdominik3945 Slavic languages are considered the closest to Baltic ones on the account of their shared Balto-Slavic origins.

@tini9874

2 жыл бұрын

it’s just small

@DonnieKreyden

2 жыл бұрын

Hi from a Latvian!

Baltic languages are fantastic ❤❤ Greetings to 🇱🇻 and 🇱🇹 from California!

@SexySquire

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mid

My grandma prussian and speak to prussian language

My Language Love From Lithuania

@efectovogel8295

2 жыл бұрын

Gražiausia kalba pasaulyje! Labas iš Ispanijos :)

@Vhisper

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@@efectovogel8295 Oho, o jūs patys ne iš Lietuvos??

I absolutely love Lithuanian out of these. It’s such a unique language. I would like to study it and to learn more about it, but unfortunately there aren’t many resources on the internet 😥

@alexone8338

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thoughts. And also sadly, there are not a lot of speakers to practice it with and learn from.

@komptechnika

2 жыл бұрын

No probs. I'm not a teacher, but can teach you by typical conversation ;)

@Vhisper

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@@alexone8338 There are, actually, you just need to find them on the internet.

Well made, Andy. I love your voice. ❤️

My high school german teacher is from latvia.

Iam lucky enough to be able to distinguish and speak in both normal Lithuanian and samogitian Lithuanian

Prussian seems pretty intuitive to other Germanic and Scandinavian languages but i am most interested in Lithuanian.

Interesting video, but I can bet the ORIGINAL PRUSSIAN LANGUAGE, not the germanic Prussia after it was conquered by Teutonic Knights, I mean real baltic Prussia had a language not resembling this one. It's clear the prussian language in this video is under german influence because it says "ainz, dwai, trais", very close to german language, germanized already, real prussian language is extinct and we will never know how actually BALTIC Prussians said one, two, three, because those in this video are just altered with germanic influence.

Lithuanian and Samogitian numerlas are so similar to Persian numerals. that's pretty interesting.

@onevablo1692

2 жыл бұрын

It's no secret that the Lithuanian language will be closer to Sanskrit.

@rainsc3771

2 жыл бұрын

samogitia is lithuanias region.

i love the introduction in one of the languages on the list

Since comments are almost only about Lithuanian, I'll say that Latvian is cool and you should learn it, or at least try to learn it, even if it's not easy language(same lithuanian).

Love it.

Nice! Can you do Sino-Tibetan next?

Samogitian really depend on where it's spoken, because I speak western Samogitian which is basically Curonian, but no differences.

@ne2kz977

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I live in the telsiai so basically everyone speaks samogitian and this video is very accurate

I’d like to know, what source you used for the Sudovian/Yotvingian language? Is it by Joseph Poshka?

I’m a quarter Prussian - though German, I’m really interested in studying this unique language. Maybe if Kaliningrad ever becomes independent, and Germans are allowed to immigrate, Russians and Germans can use Prussian to communicate with each other ^^

@user-cs9qc6ny3d

2 жыл бұрын

Auch wenn wegen Baltijsk für Russland zu wichtig, hoffe auch ich sehr, dass das geschieht.

@orangetv3tgl144

2 жыл бұрын

It would be so great!

@user-ct6fj5sk7q

2 жыл бұрын

@@orangetv3tgl144 no it wouldn't

@myeonghanjeong8055

2 жыл бұрын

mav e od'ids baubre mew'eris paaeks kanguid pe em mesuramba!

@alexstorm2749

2 жыл бұрын

Bad idea. In 1941-1945 your ancestors’ similar plan failed miserably. And you don’t wanna try it all over again. Believe me. But as they say - the apple never falls far from the tree.

Closest to Slavic that’s why linguists call them together as a branch of IE called “Balto-Slavic”

@anfinnb.8425

2 жыл бұрын

Not only that, but Baltic may in actuality be paraphyletic, meaning that East Baltic, West Baltic and Slavic are coordinate branches (equidistant from one another). I'm no Balticist, but one immediately evident East Baltic-Slavic isogloss is the dissimilatory *d- in 'nine'.

@n.i.b.9092

2 жыл бұрын

А ведь многие слова действительно схожи

@Moes13K

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Nesamonė nieko panašaus

Nice video

Great👏👏

A very long comment, but I imagine European languages to be: 1) Baltic languages + Greek are the living ol' rusty-but-still-go-for-a-walk-every-morning great-grandparents of Indo-European Europe. These old Baltic people might not know about their South Asian cousins and great-nephews, but Greek knows everything and he had a special connection with South Asia, and although now stays in the background, everyone still silently admire him for his extremely accomplished youth and successes that's so fundamental to the world. 2) Slavic languages + Icelandic + Faroese + Albanian are the grandparents. Slavic languages are the grandparents who make the best food and understand each other the best, but sometimes fight with each other for petty things. Icelandic and Faroese are two who always share their written thoughts together and understand each other easily via text, but have difficult time understanding each other when speaking. And finally Albanian, kind of an oddball in his own place, is an ex-professional chef who has Latin and his late father's native Illyrian thoughts. 3) German is the adventurous retiree who still loves to work with spreadsheets and make friends with everyone around the world. People used to beat him in the youth because he was the language of the nastiest humans who've ever lived in Europe, but now most have forgotten about them, reconciled with him, and began to share their joy and curiosities with him. 4) Dutch is the middle-aged man who works as a florist. He used to be (and still is) extremely wealthy and advanced in the whole world, ruling the seas along with his Romance cousins. 5) all Romance languages are siblings in their 30-40s who always understand each other and are famous for their art and influence in the world, ruled the seas and the world for centuries together. Sometimes they cooperated but they often fought, just like most siblings. 6) any other Germanic languages are the siblings in their teens who might have difficulty in understanding each other but always remember messing with the old Roman people and stealing stuff from Berber and Iberian bazaars as children and constantly getting smacked by the authorities for that. English, the youngest, on the other hand, was adopted by France and his Nordic cousins and developed some unique traits that made his siblings had a hard time understanding him, but ended up always needing him for many problems they face because he's the smartest and can talk with anyone from any country who speaks his thoughts and accepts his quirky personalities.

@jokemon9547

2 жыл бұрын

You mean Indo-European languages in Europe, since there's no Basque nor European Uralic languages mentioned here.

@user-hnjga8is1zr6u

2 жыл бұрын

@@jokemon9547 yeasss

The words for eight look a lot like Estonia.

Please do Austroasiatic !

So that in anime Saga of Tanya the evil speak in Prussia influence into German so excited.

Hi Andy

Will you do Chukotko-Kamchatkan?

❤️❤️

Do Uralic

BALTIC LANGAUGES

1:06 LOL...

I can do the Bactrian or Saka language.

@ilovelanguages0124

2 жыл бұрын

Great! Kindly send me an email to otipeps24@gmail.com :)

Yes, thank you for mentioned that we are in Northern Europe! That's how I know when people are really into research and not just "Lithuania is eAstErN eUrOpE"

@ss_super_steve

2 жыл бұрын

id say central because you guys have the center of europe within you

@Vhisper

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@@garajnik_ you have russian name means automatically ignored

@Vhisper

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@@ss_super_steve Geographically speaking - yes, but culturally we always were Northern.

@Vhisper

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@@Yggdrasil2140 Well it's not friendly actually as long as it's Russian, but I see you have Lithuanian name, so I guess greetings "step brother" 😄

You can still see the some related words with the slavic langauges.

@dunnohow2live997

2 жыл бұрын

Numbers are similar in all IE languages, but still your statement is true

@duesen756

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but you also clearly see the relation to Germanic and Romance languages.

Interesting 🧐

Iranian languages please

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The second flag is highly similar to Russian anti war flag.

first in parallel universe

At first I thought there were just 3 baltic language (Lithuanian, Latvian and ESTONIAN). How u can see I got it totally wrong lmfao.

Sorry, but right from the beginning - it has to be mentioned that it is highly contested among linguists and historians whether or not a thing as Balto-Slavic language group even exits, as the term Balto-Slavic was predominantly used by the historians and linguists of both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in an attempt to further diminish the role of the Baltic languages and the people identifying with these languages, and to further strengthen the forced Russification of these regions prior to WW1 and after WW2. Please note that this is nothing against you or your channel as I greatly appreciate it and am highly interested in learning about various languages, and knowing that many research papers and documents concerning the Baltic languages and their origins are either in these languages (Latvian and Lithuanian) or in German and sources in English are not so common unfortunately, it is easy to fall prey to what is available as general source (in English) and thus further spread information that is mostly outdated. The Baltic languages are distinctly different from the Slavic languages although in the more recent history the Baltic languages have come to contain a very high amount of loan-words from the Slavic and Germanic languages. As someone with good connections to various historians, archeologists and linguists for the Baltic languages, I would be delighted should you have any further questions to this language group and could connect you to said people. With best regards, Hermans Vilks.

@lachieblack8605

2 жыл бұрын

from my knowledge the balto-slavic relation is commonly accepted, from personal experience I can see the resemblance in cognates between russian/slavic languages and baltic languages, such as (transliterated from russian) odin - odin (one) dwa (two) tri (three) cheteri (four) pyats (five) shests (six) sem (seven) vosem (eight) devyats (nine) desyats (ten), among other vocabulary such as the world zver/zwar, i am not exactly sure of its spelling but in latvian/lithuanian means beast/animal, compare this to russian зверь (zver) meaning beast/animal, and of course soviet-perioid russian loanwords of swear words, you may be able to put this down to lots of mutual interaction, but the relationship seems to exist, i cannot say about grammar as i have not studied baltic grammar.

@totallydead5908

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah and I would also like to mention that galandians are completely left in the dust. They are related to Prussians and sudovians and they slit into two groups one living closer to Baltic region and the other living north of Russia and they were assimilated in the 16 century and they're couture somewhat survived up until 20 century so Baltic languages could have influenced Slavic ones. and linguists can't reconstruct what ancient "balto-slavic" was what it sounded like what were their culture like ect. And a lot of people seem to think that Baltic languages came from Slavic.

@Ayazidas

2 жыл бұрын

Whether the Balto-Slavic language theory was championed, for whatever reasons, by Russian/Soviet linguists and historians is irrelevant to the question if it is correct or not. Every scientific theory should be evaluated on its own merits, regardless if someone may use it for his political agenda. It would be completely absurd to claim that Lithuania or Latvia somehow belong to Russia, just because the Baltic and Slavic languages evolved from a common proto-language, which existed like 3000 years ago, when there were no Russians, Lithuanians or any other modern nation. Neither it implies some special brotherhood among the Slavic and Baltic speakers. It's accepted among linguists that the Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian languages evolved from a common proto-language, spoken around 4000 years ago. It doesn't mean that those languages are mutually intelligible or that there is some special bond between their speakers. Of course that the Baltic and Slavic languages are distinctly different, since they split apart thousands of years ago. Kurdish and Bengali are also distinctly different and Mansi or Khanty sound like total gibberish to Hungarians. However, nobody seems to question seriously the fact that those languages share a common origin and belong to the same subgroups within their language families.

@KnightoftheTempleII

2 жыл бұрын

@@lachieblack8605 Dear lachie black, the grammar is different to a degree where it is clear that the languages are far from similar, however, I do agree that there are resemblances in the cognates although it has to be taken into consideration that both Latvian and Lithuanian in their modern form are 'Eastern-Baltic' languages and have had a very high interaction with Slavic languages, be it Polish, Belorussian or Russian and as such the numerals (to a certain extent) among other vocabulary are mostly loanwords integrated over centuries in the separate languages. While numbers are the easiest to compare, it also leaves out similarities shared with other language groups such as the ancient Celts and Germanic languages - the same "trīs"/three as it would be in the continental Celtic languages is basically the same as in modern Latvian. Similarities do exist and it is very hard to discern where the roots of these differences come from, but there are various theories on the existence or lack there off of a Balto-Slavic language group as first theories that are still predominant are from beginning of the 20th century German and Russian authors/linguists. It is currently believed that Slavic languages could have even developed from a proto-Baltic language group in the region of current day Lesser Poland in the time from 3000 BCE to 1500 BCE being in contact with other migrating Indo-Iranian tribes gradually intermixing and forming a melting-pot for the languages currently known as Slavic as the Baltic tribes in that period where small in numbers, spread over vast areas and/or migrated north towards the territories of Latvia, Lithuania and Prussia, with the Eastern Galandians being the only group staying farthest to the east.

@KnightoftheTempleII

2 жыл бұрын

It is believed that the Baltic languages split somewhere in the time from 1500 BCE to 500 BCE in the two parts of Western and Eastern Baltic languages, but both had influences from Germanic, Celtic and Slavic language groups. The theory that is currently among the contested but likely ones is that due to the Baltic tribes being small in numbers and covering vast areas the probability of assimilation, if no migration took place, to be quite high, leading to multiple occasions of Slavic and Baltic languages 'meeting' and 'diverging' again. As I said - the theories are many, but none completely proven.

Lithuanian shows similarities to Persian .

@hilmust6278

2 жыл бұрын

Both are Indo-European languages

i have a question, what was the language (or languages) before the Great Flood?

@aaronmarks9366

2 жыл бұрын

To answer this, we would have to establish the Great Flood as a global event, and date it to a particular time period. If we look at the sea-level rise that happened at the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago, there were many thousands of languages spoken in every part of the world. Some of these are the ancestors of modern language families, but beyond this, we really don't know, absent a time machine ;)

The Russian opposition is now using Sudovian flag as their own. Some have claimed that the white blue white flag origins are from Novorgrod Republic.

@user-zz2iy9cy5v

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The white-blue-white flag has nothing to do with the Novgorod Republic.

@user-zz2iy9cy5v

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It is a myth

Hello. The six languages are similar each other, pronunciations of the numbers of this languages are similar each other too. I know that these language are of three states: Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Personally in my opinion these language maybe not so easy for learning as a lot of languages. I think these language more difficult than English language and Slavic languages. Sincerely Vitia Borysiuk. Good luck :)

@hellishlycute

2 жыл бұрын

estonian isnt a baltic language

I am 7.8% Baltic

Prussia is Baltic-slavic my family came from Prussia before Hitler destroyed it

Lithuanian is one of the best languages in da entire world, sadly the globalization is slowly killing it

@raivopelcis551

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Yes, Lithuanian is very cool. But latvian is also very cool😔

Sudovian flag looks literally like defeatist version of Russian flag💀💀

first

Where is an Estonia, what is this??

Many Slavic influences!

@polishhussarmapping258

2 жыл бұрын

Not really influence but close relatedness. There is a thing called Balto-Slavic.

@vlagavulvin3847

2 жыл бұрын

Nah. I'd say, Lithuanian is the uncle of any Slavic lang. Neither brother nor daddy, tho. And of course, Balts did not borrow their numerals from Slavs.

sounds quite similar to Slavic languages

Iranian languages please