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This video is all about the Baltic Language family, focusing mainly on its two living languages: Lithuanian and Latvian. But I also focus on the history and development of the Baltic languages more generally.
Special thanks to Domeniks Antonenko for his Latvian samples and feedback, and Rokas Stasiškis for his Lithuanian samples and feedback.
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As an Estonian, my knowledge of Latvian and Lithuanian vocabulary comes primarily from triple-labelled groceries in Rimi.
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As a Latvian I love how Lithuanian sounds. It is practically impossible for me to understand spoken Lithuanian, but I can understand separate words and simple sentences especially in written form. It’s so fun to pronounce Lithuanian being Latvian, it’s some kind of magic! I only wish that we’d have more exchange programmes between our countries.
I respect my fellow Lithuanian brothers and sisters that they have conserved their language so well. We’ll only be strong if we hold on together and no external force will ever tear us and our languages apart.
Aš myliu Lietuvą! Es mīlu Lietuvu! Mūsų broliai! Mūsu brāļi! 🇱🇹❤🇱🇻
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I am polish, living in Latvia for 4years now. Speaking latvian fruently and proud to speak this beautiful language.
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I''m Latvian, my wife is Lithuanian and the kids are, well... Baltic :)
At first everything sounds very familiar but nothing makes sense. After a while it becomes easy to pick up on the differences and to get a fair level of understanding in each other's languages.
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A minute of silence for Prussian.
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I am Latvian who has learned Lithuanian language so I have a few things to mention regarding this topic.
First of all in the beginning it was really hard to understand much in Lithuanian, but once you get used to fact that stress is variable in Lithuanian (it really does make some words harder to understand for Latvian) and get familiar with some consonant and vowel shifts (Latvian - Lithuanian dz - g, c - k, z - ž, ā - o, uo - an ) it gets much easier. I would say that ultimately some 60-70% of words in our vocabularies are the same/similar or with common roots.
Also there are some things regarding different varieties (or dialects if you prefer) for example some words in Latgalian are closer to Lithuanian than standard Latvian, but some words in Samogitian are closer to Latvian than to standard Lithuanian. So if for some reason Samogitian and Latgalian languages would have been dominating in Lithuania and Latvia our languages could have been more similar. Recently I started to learn Estonian (which is similar to Livonian languages, which has left some impact on Latvian) and I recognized that some words from everyday Latvian vocabulary (which are unrecognizable in Lithuanian) are actually similar with Estonian words, so we really have borrowed some words from Livonian/Estonian.
And yes of course there are quite a few funny false friend in our languages. For example 'bauda' lv- pleasure lt- penalty, 'dejuoti' lv- to dance lt - to lament, 'smags/smagus' lv- heavy lt- joyful.
For Latvians reading this I can suggest my Latvian language channel called 'Laika doma', where in "Lietuviešu un Latviešu valoda, cik līdzīgas tās ir?" I explain how similar are Latvian and Lithuanian.
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I was born in Syria, but I moved to Lithuania many years ago. I did my bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Vilnius University, but since the study programme was in Lithuanian language, I had to learn the language for my studies. Many years have passed since, I still live in Lithuania and I use Lithuanian every day to communicate with everyone. I'm very happy to be able to speak this beautiful language and I feel very much appreciated by people for such an achievement. I would love to learn some Latvian as well, but I never really got the chance to pursue this idea. In many ways, the two languages are so similar, yet so different that one cannot understand the other without learning the basics.
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I'm French and I had the opportunity to visit Vilnius last November.
Not only they have a very beautiful city and a fascinating history, Lithuanians also have a pretty language.
I can't wait to visit Latvia and others cities in Lithuania now.
Even if it's a totally different language I also need to discover Estonia as well. I even started learning this very complex language.
Respect to our baltic friends
🇱🇹❤🇱🇻❤🇪🇪❤🇫🇷
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I love our Baltic friends from Ireland. 🇮🇪🤝🏻🇱🇻🇱🇹
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I'm half Lithuanian and half Brazilian, I'm too happy with this video. For years I ask Paul for video about Lithuanian. And did this, because they are balta languages.
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I think that it's super cool that Baltic people put so much effort in preserving their culture. Keep up the good work Baltic friends! Greeting from Ukraine ;)
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I'm Lithuanian and we had a short exchange program with a school in Latvia. By the end of the week I could follow most conversations in Latvian. The ammount of false friend words is hilarious and it leads to a lot of funny misunderstandings.
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Others: “Are you Baltic?”
Estonians: “Well, it depends on context. If it is geography, yes. If it is language, no.”
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Please make more videos about both languages! In Greek melanos can mean either black or blue and especially the similarity to the lithuanian melynas is stunning!
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As a Pole, I've always been a bit curious about the Baltic languages. They are completely unintelligible to me so it takes a lot o trust in science to believe they're related to Slavic. That being said, similarly to Polish, they seem so wonderfully complicated and rich. I'm very glad they've been preserved.
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Wow! As a Latvian, I'm genuinely surprised by how qualitative this video has been made. I've seen many videos about my homeland but they explain partly or have not researched enough to grasp the full TRUE picture. In general dogwater. Butt his was really, really good. I'm proud if this production. I have no complaints at all. Cieņā! (Respect)
Videos like these show the true reality of my people and give awareness to other people of that my country exists. Thank you for that! Paldies! 🙏
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Honestly, I would listen to another hour about Baltic languages with great pleasure.
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I am from Latvia. Latvians have some interesting language, because we use some Estonian words too. For example word- a hause, is same as in Estonia- māja, but we also use Lithuanian Baltic variant - nams.
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Hi from Latvia, to my brothers Lithuania. I love you all good people. It was such important that we stayed on Baltic way. I am proud how such a small nations could be powerful of changes.
I love my best neighbors Lithuania and Estonia.
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