Lumilintu wrote:...
Where on youtube did you find this?
Varaleiva wrote:Lituanian to me sounds a bit like the following languages: Chinese (sometimes), Tchetchen, Tchec, Croatian, Espanish, French, German, Greco, Kurd, Latin, Portugues, Serbian, Turco-arabic, Ukrainian.
エヴァルダス wrote:...
and phonologically, Lithuanian is indeed an Eastern Slavonic language.
Varaleiva wrote: in addition, the Lithuanian language is much older than the Slavic languages (recognized that the Lithuanian language is most archaic among Indo-European languages).
So if you already love the label, it should be: "Lithuanish Eastern Slavic languages“.
uzferry wrote:Varaleiva wrote: in addition, the Lithuanian language is much older than the Slavic languages (recognized that the Lithuanian language is most archaic among Indo-European languages).
So if you already love the label, it should be: "Lithuanish Eastern Slavic languages“.
Wut? What does prevailing resemblance to the Indo-European has to do with the language being old? That only means Lithuanian has been isolated for a longer time and hasn't changed that much.
Also, little is known about the Slavic-Baltic relationship, but usually researchers suggest that both languages have the same ancestor - Balto-slavic language* and that at some they began evolving separately from each other*. So I don't really understand what you meant by Lithuanian being "much older than the Slavic languages".
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Varaleiva wrote:Lithuanian language close to the antique Aryan language because it is a direct descendant of that language.
Sol Invictus wrote:Varaleiva wrote:Lithuanian language close to the antique Aryan language because it is a direct descendant of that language.
Speaking of outdated...
Sol Invictus wrote: here's some text in PIE for reality check.
Sol Invictus wrote:Balto-Slavic probably was last common ancestor of all Baltic languages
which was the reason why it was argued that Lithuanian is "Slavic". Seems rather probable seeing how the accent Lithuanians tend to have when speaking in foreign languages is very similar to soft Russian accent.
エヴァルダス wrote:Take a look at a simple mathematical calculation based on cognates.
The Germanic accent in this video is atrocious. A bit sad that these videos are being done mostly by English speakers. The same text spoken by a Latvian would be 5 times more accurate
The more correct way to express this is "Lituanian phonology is Eastern Slavonic-like".
the research this image is from is complete BS
エヴァルダス wrote:the research this image is from is complete BS
They claim the research was not genuine and was done scientifically incorrectly?
I would simply say the scheme represents well the similarity between languages, but has a restricted application in other fields of linguistics.
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