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Actually, Lithuanian is the most archaic language in Europe, which is what makes it so good.
by Koshkin 7y ago
Actually, Lithuanian is the most archaic language in Europe, which is what makes it so good.
- umanwizard 7y ago> Lithuanian is the most archaic language in Europe By what metric? > which is what makes it so good By what metric?
- jadyoyster 7y agoBy most archaic language they are probably referring to Lithuanian being considered closest to Proto-Indo-European in terms of language features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language
- Accacin 7y agoI’ve heard this and also heard it’s mostly complete rubbish. It might technically be the closest but that is still not close at all, simplifying like this doesn’t really help anything.
- kmm 7y agoLithuanian is very conservative in some aspects, and very progressive in others. For example, it has lost the neutral gender and it has innovated some cases that didn't exist in PIE. There is no scientific, consistent way to call it as a whole more archaic than any other language.