Lithuanian language – one of the oldest languages in the world
Did you know that Lithuanian 🇱🇹 language is considered to be the oldest surviving Indo-European language?
Among the European languages it has preserved the greatest number of phonetic and morphological characteristics of the parent language. Like Ancient Greek, our language has preserved long and short vowel sounds, as well as vowel sounds at the end of words, and the free emphasis that was characteristic of the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Linguists say that Lithuanian is therefore the closest, among the Indo-European languages, to the parent language of Sanskrit. with the classical Indian language of Sanskrit, as well as Latin and Ancient Greek.
The Lithuanian language has always fascinated the world’s linguists and has been admired for its complexity and beauty. As the American scholar Benjamin W. Dwight wrote in his 1859 book Modern Philology: “If the value of a nation in the sum total of humanity were to be measured by the beauty of its language, Lithuania ought to have the first place among the nations of Europe.”
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