Results: Lithuanian, the oldest living language in the Indo-European language family
Published on 02/27/2023
There are 10 main branches of the Indo-European language family, including Anatolian, Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Greek, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Italic, and Tocharian.
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Linguists are particularly interested in Lithuanian because it is considered to be the oldest surviving Indo-European language. It retains many archaic features, which are believed to have been present in the early stages of the Proto-Indo-European language. Do you know/speak Lithuanian?
Yes
6%
129 votes
No
94%
2171 votes
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The language Lithuanians speak is closer to Sanskrit than anything else. Lithuanian language plays a huge role in reconstruction other Indo European languages. If you can read this, you obviously speak the Indo European language. How many of them do you speak?
1
80%
1844 votes
2-3
13%
298 votes
4 or more
7%
158 votes
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During the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest country in Europe, including the lands of present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia, extending from the Baltic to the Black sea. Have you ever travelled to Lithuania?
Yes
7%
161 votes
No
93%
2139 votes
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