Lithuanian (lĭth'
ā`nēən), a language belonging to the Baltic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Baltic languages Baltic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The Indo-European subfamily to which the Baltic languages appear to be closest is the Slavic.
..... Click the link for more information. ). The official language of Lithuania since 1918, Lithuanian is spoken by approximately 3 million people there and by an additional half-million elsewhere in the world, chiefly in the Western Hemisphere. The importance of Lithuanian in linguistic studies stems from its designation as the most ancient of the living Indo-European languages. It is also the language closest to Proto–Indo-European, the ancestral tongue from which all the Indo-European languages evolved. Currently, Lithuanian uses a modified Roman alphabet for writing.
Lithuanian
ā`nēən), a language belonging to the Baltic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Baltic languages Baltic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The Indo-European subfamily to which the Baltic languages appear to be closest is the Slavic...... Click the link for more information. ). The official language of Lithuania since 1918, Lithuanian is spoken by approximately 3 million people there and by an additional half-million elsewhere in the world, chiefly in the Western Hemisphere. The importance of Lithuanian in linguistic studies stems from its designation as the most ancient of the living Indo-European languages. It is also the language closest to Proto–Indo-European, the ancestral tongue from which all the Indo-European languages evolved. Currently, Lithuanian uses a modified Roman alphabet for writing.
Bibliography
See L. Dambriunas et al., Introduction to Modern Lithuanian (1980).
Lithuanian
the official language of Lithuania: belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European family
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