About The Sound of the Lithuanian language (Numbers, Greetings, Words & UDHR)

Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. This video was made for educational purposes only. Non profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. All credits belong to the rightful owners. Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) Native to: Lithuania Region: Baltic Ethnicity: Lithuanians Native speakers: 3.0 million (2012) Language family: Indo-European (Baltic) is an Eastern Baltic language spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.8 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 200,000 speakers abroad. As a Baltic language, Lithuanian is closely related to neighbouring Latvian and more distantly to Slavic, Germanic and other Indo-European languages. It is written in a Latin alphabet. Lithuanian is often said to be the most conservative living Indo-European language, retaining features of Proto-Indo-European now lost in other languages. Among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian is conservative in some aspects of its grammar and phonology, retaining archaic features otherwise found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit (particularly its early form, Vedic Sanskrit) or Ancient Greek. For this reason, it is an important source for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European language despite its late attestation (with the earliest texts dating only to c. 1500) LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/litol/00 http://www.lsk.flf.vu.lt/en/department/courses/lithuanian-language/ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lithuanian-language https://omniglot.com/writing/lithuanian.htm#:~:text=Lithuanian%20(lietuvi%C5%B3%20kalba),by%20about%202.9%20million%20people.&text=It%20is%20thought%20to%20be,other%20modern%20Indo%2DEuropean%20languages. If you are interested to see your native language/dialect to be featured here. Submit your recordings to [email protected]. Looking forward to hearing from you!