I mean yeah, baltic languages are a bit older, dont really see how someone can have a different opinion about this 😛
Not like we could understand sanskrit. dont know about lithuanians, latvians can barely understand them 😀
In its idea maybe, but so are a bunch of different ones. The modern languages all are an evolution of the old ones, especially since those had books and manuscripts waaaay before we would even have a civilization, so naturally as knowledge migrates – that would become the foundation of our own culture/values.
Quite irrelevant ,but Fonetiskais tulks translations are hilarious and shows how phonetically similar latvian and indian can sound .
It might be true that simmilarity is there, but belief that it is significant is outdated. Indoeuropean languages were discovered, because it was noticed that Indian and European languages are simmilar. Sanskrit, historically spoken by Aryans, was one of the oldest known languages at the time, so it was theorized that it’s the original language from which Indoeuropean languages came or perhaps that languages close to it were the original ones IDK, at any rate evidently used to be popular science topic sometime in early 20th century. However, currently, after more research and discoveries, it is believed that the original language was spoken near the Black sea, one of these theories originally was proposed by a Lithuanian archeologist BTW. And in addition to that linguists try to reconstruct how languages in past may have sounded like, in case of proto-Indoeuropean some have even put together some texts, which are nothing like Baltic languages, see here https://omniglot.com/writing/pie.htm
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Genetically Latvians are the most ancient population in whole Europe. In other words, we have the highest hunter-gatherer proportion in our DNA. So some words for rivers, lakes may well be thousands of years old.
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I mean yeah, baltic languages are a bit older, dont really see how someone can have a different opinion about this 😛
Not like we could understand sanskrit. dont know about lithuanians, latvians can barely understand them 😀
In its idea maybe, but so are a bunch of different ones. The modern languages all are an evolution of the old ones, especially since those had books and manuscripts waaaay before we would even have a civilization, so naturally as knowledge migrates – that would become the foundation of our own culture/values.
Quite irrelevant ,but Fonetiskais tulks translations are hilarious and shows how phonetically similar latvian and indian can sound .
https://youtu.be/Qw6wq3UTqJM
https://youtu.be/MZ6Gg8Wgbcw
It might be true that simmilarity is there, but belief that it is significant is outdated. Indoeuropean languages were discovered, because it was noticed that Indian and European languages are simmilar. Sanskrit, historically spoken by Aryans, was one of the oldest known languages at the time, so it was theorized that it’s the original language from which Indoeuropean languages came or perhaps that languages close to it were the original ones IDK, at any rate evidently used to be popular science topic sometime in early 20th century. However, currently, after more research and discoveries, it is believed that the original language was spoken near the Black sea, one of these theories originally was proposed by a Lithuanian archeologist BTW. And in addition to that linguists try to reconstruct how languages in past may have sounded like, in case of proto-Indoeuropean some have even put together some texts, which are nothing like Baltic languages, see here https://omniglot.com/writing/pie.htm
govs ir govs
Genetically Latvians are the most ancient population in whole Europe. In other words, we have the highest hunter-gatherer proportion in our DNA. So some words for rivers, lakes may well be thousands of years old.
Hell no