Baltic Language Family 

Esi sveiks!

But you have to convert to Paganism then😁

Oh wow, I'm Malaysian too.

Are you going to improve their demography??

I'm a Malaysian too! 🇲🇾

@@bingo5767 😂

I love Latvia, I like Latvian Russian and Ukrainian girls, from punjab 😍

Defenetly 👍

I recently discovered that i am baltic and am now trying to learn either Latvian or Lithuanian

@Brainstormvideos Thank you!

@Brainstormvideos That's just your tiny point of view. I personally believe in the future of the Balts.

The only way to produce more Balts is sex! Who prevents you from making children?

That's why they have laws about protection of language because half of their people are Russian speaking and without protecting their original languages it would desapear in next few years. Especially when I was in Latvia I saw that situation is alarming, especially in Riga really most of people are speaking Russian from what I heard there. But all insctriptions at public places are strictly in Latvian which is only reasong why that Russian speaking people should learn Latvian and keep that language alive.

@Cultural Politics 101 Slavic dna? Slavian has no nda or atropology, it is only language of nomads 4.AC. Bulgars( turks) Buriats (mongols), raseeans (ugro fins) are slaves.

@@Pidalin What you are talking about is a Latvian-specific problem that stems from the rather weak Latvian partisan resistance against the Soviet Union. When Stallin occupied the Baltic States, he started moving Russian colonists into them in order to Russify the lands. While Latvians tried to resist this, it was not as strong as the Lithuanian Resistance: the Lithuanian Guerilla Fighters would burn households of newly "imported" Russians and make their lives a living hell. Therefore, Russians were scared of moving into Lithuania, as they were shown that they were severly unwelcome, and chose to go to Estonia and Latvia instead. Later, after WWII, a Antanas Sniečkus became the Chairman of the Communist party of the Lithuanian SSR. Even though he was a devoted communist and comitted some horrible crimes, he was a nationalist, and did everything in his power to prevent Russians from coming to Lithuania. He didn't fear Stalin one bit. This resulted in half of Latvian population today being Russian speakers, while 87 percent of Lithuania being Lithuanian speakers, the other two shared by small percentages of Russians and Polish. Plus, the same Russians that live in Lithuania have different mentality than those in Latvia - Lithuanian Russians are rather pro-Lithuanian, know the language and will speak Lithuanian if required. A really big number of them choose to serve in the Lithuanian Military and are known public figures. Latvian Russians, however, can only be likened to cockroaches who infest another mans property and act as if they are at home. They refuse to learn Latvian on purpose and express deep imperial attitudes.

@@rytisliaucys3444 I think it's not only because USSR history but even because after 1990 history when many Latvian people went to western Europe and another Russians arrived and took their place. Here in Czech Republic I noticed in last few years I hear Russian very oftern, much often than I would want, something is changing here I guess. When I was kid everything was only Czech, in historical places sometimes English or German. Today I see cyrillic everywhere and hear Russian very often and I don't like that. It's starting be like before 1989, you go to center of Prague for example and half of inscriptions are in cyrillic, souvenir shops are selling Russian stuff etc...that's terrible, we need similar language laws as Latvia to the future. I noticed even many youtube channels for tourists about Prague are pretending they are native but I can hear they are native Russian speakers so they even presenting Russian accent as Czech thing. Russians in supermarkets are trying to negotiate about prices like somewhere at market in Egypt. I am really sad because of that, it's like some kind of invasion. But I guess some of them are actually Ukrainians, it's hard to distinguish this 2 languages for Czech speaker, I am always trying to find H sound because Russians can't pronounce that so H sound can spot Ukrainian language and I think in most of such weird situations that people are really Russian, not Ukrainian.

Well, Germans eliminated Prussians completely

Esi sveiks!

AČIŪ!

You're welcome!

Ignasi Planas Villalba Cataluña es España.

We Will😁

@@luisrincon7819 Cataluña es Cataluña

Yes, but that wasnt kuršu latviešu it was latviešu langauges kurzemes dialect.

Genuine question. Is there any proof Prussian-Lithuanian dialect was still spoken in Prussia in after the WWI?

@@tantuce In Prussia as in the sense of the territory controlled by the Prussian State? Sparcly, the dialect in most parts was then concentrated on the right side of the Memel River. In the territory the Prussian State considered its lawful territory? Most definitely, the folk of the right side of the bank were at least billingual if not tri- or multilingual. Their dialect was *the* official reason why Lithuania annexed the region after WW1.

@@rinaldslibeks1592 no, you don't know what you're saying, the Balts write using Latin alphabet

@@rinaldslibeks1592 what? Do You mean when Baltic people were oppressed to speak Russian? What are you on about

@@rinaldslibeks1592 im from lithuania and while i dont know what it was like in latvia i can say for certain we didnt use the russian alphabet down here. at least we didnt choose to use it

Flying Strawberry, Благодаря ти и България.

@@arunaspaulionis8350 🇧🇬❤️🇱🇹

If we keep our Heritage traditions we won't extinct, to bad many EU countries losing traditions...

Romuvos Pagonis I mean the government is doing the people dirty

@@daniels1263 Agree 👍 the worst enemy is Money...... It destroys everything. One day will come that people gonna find out that you can't eat money, but it will be to late...

Romuvos Pagonis yeh that’s very true I looked at some statistics and apparently by somewhere around 2080 or 2100 Latvia will be completely empty if people keep leaving.

where do you see unity?

(thank you im latvian) lol

Čau!

Kakau!

Kā iet? :D

I love my language and Lithuania are quite close if you listen carefully, like Spanish and Portuguese, you could actually understand

@@snipezz3951 We Understand Latvian more than Latvian Lithuanian

I wonder why Estonia is considered Baltic if it’s finnic and why finland is considered Nordic if it’s also finnic lol

@@MasterMet Finland was considered a fourth Baltic state in the Interwar period. Then around 1950-s it rebranded itself as Nordic (I guess because the other Baltic States were occupied by the Soviets).

@@MasterMet Estonians are grouped with us balti because of blood, langauge and land. Language is the only differnece.

Not so rare here in the Baltics, to my knowledge. Are you part of the diaspora?

Swedish, but 10% Baltic here, according to such a test (a bit surprisingly the by far largest non-Scandinavian percentage I have). I like to imagine that's Old Prussian since that'd be the only place I know I should have some kind of connection to in the area, but Swedes have been all around that place for centuries, so can't know for sure. :) (feels tragic to think about their fate though - getting raped and murdered by a bunch of crusaders for worshipping ancient indo-european gods.. :( )

@@nordicelfmagic8937 religion is for idiots.

@@charlesrb3898 Then you should be made pope

@@nordicelfmagic8937 I wish I was religious. It least I could then unironically worship the oak tree.

Asgaut Bakke, LOL, finnish languages have nothing to do with balto-slavic languages.

@@tonton1626 That is not what I wrote, fact is that in Latvia there used to be an ethnic minority talking a language called Liiv, closely related to Estonian. I've been in Latvia so I know. This Liiv language is now moribund - less than a hundred talk it for everydays but there is a movement going to revive it like is also active at the British isles with Manx and Cornish.

@@asgautbakke8687 , I didn't say you wrote something else. I said this video is about baltic languages, not about finnish languages. So it has nothing to do with baltic languages.

​@@tonton1626 Livu language is not Baltic , it is FinoUngric . Same as Estonian , Hungarians , and Finish. ( comes from Urals ) They ( the Livs ) where distinct ethnic group , living on cost of Latvia , and where never related to rest of tribes. But they did take up most of cost line , hence Tontons coment :)

@@tonton1626 it did affect Latvian language tho, so it is kind related to the topic.

Tas ir sākums, bet ne pilnīga izpratne.

And Moscow is the baltic name.

@@Kirill7775 Finnic or Baltic, but totally not Slavic...

No, they were located somewhat south of Moscow. And, of course, Moskva is obviously Finnic toponim.

@@Kirill7775 moschkva?

@@vadimpm1290 Definitely not Finnish, or the times of the Balto-Slavic period or Slavic.

Yes it does But somehow I feel that only in Baltics and Finland

Why? No point in looking back - look to the future!

@@anzelmasmatutis2500 ok, then. Who's with me want to rebuild Great Duchy of Lithuania, in future?

Prussia!

I think retaking Prussia would be more fruitful.

Aciu sexy Slavs.

But remember the laws of hospitality and dont overstay your welcome.

Agree 👍 I'm Lithuanian.

Well I am Latvian and when I hear Lithuanian I understand liek only 40 - 50 %, but yes, there are a lot of similarities

I don't understand a word Lithuanians are saying. Too much polish influence.

@@Lachausis I can't think of any lithuanian word that comes from polish.

@@andrisgailitis Žemaiši ir krietni saprotamāki par aukšgaitiešiem. Pamēģini.

yeah it literally only has 200 speakers left

@@simoneseman4504 Even that could be old info - it's about to disappear. I think there are no monolingual people left. And still in early 20th century there were living, vibrant villages there. Global politics ran over them.

@@timomastosalo Good.

@@timomastosalo last native speaker died in 2012 or around that. Soviets closed the access to the sea so few thousand of left native livonian speakers had to move inland and ofc they mixed and kids didn learn language so yeah, got extinct, if soviets never occupied latvia there still would be few thousand speakers i think

Sanskrit is an Indo-European language and Lithuanian is the oldest language in Europe so it makes sense.

since dre Because balts were vedic hindus once.

Argjend Krasniqi Vedic religion is the earliest hinduism. So balts were hindus who were driven out of India.

​@@adityanawani8134 Only Romani are Out of India people.

because Baltic languages and Sanskrit are the most conservitive Indo-European languages!

i once asked a navajo, how they say thankyou, reply was,..phonetically,.... aa ki oo, aciu, lithuania, mind blown, c;

How does such a thing come to be?

@@vicsaul5459 Those are not connected in the slightest and you cant read.

Yes, it was without poland but with todays ukraine and belarus lands bigest country in europe

The Polish -Lithuanian commonwealth was a dynastic arrangement on a 90/10 split. As for the common people they were serfs and nothing but forced labor.

But you know, these lands werent concoured by brutal force.

Well,it can be very long story for you to discover all things....Empire of Rome sucsessfully rewrote history ,but you have to know that lithuanian language is older than latin.Rome called us "pagans"that means folks in latin ,and created religion to point who is bad and who is good,just to divide and rule.But here is what jesuit monk Peter of Dusburgh wrote obout us in 1326: "They,not knowing christian god treating as God all world:Sun,Moon,stars and nature.They have forrests,where noone cut a single tree,saint rivers,where noone is fishing.They are interested in nature and investigating it.They believe in imortal soul by Pitagor's souls transmigration(Pitagorica animarum transmigracione)"

P.S Heard that Pitagor's teachers name was Žalmokslis.In lithuanian it literaly means "green teacher" Also Etruskian oracles called themselves by very well in lithuanian understandable names: Aukuriai-fire lighters Garuspėjiksai-vape guessers😉

basically eternal euphoria

@@irma-108 Is Pitagor the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, whose teachings included the transmigration of souls? A well-educated Jesuit might mistakenly ascribe all similar beliefs to him.

@@faithlesshound5621 Well,firstly what was Rome empire?City,build by help of etruscians decided to ocupy whole Eritrea.After that they started to kill Celts.Then"felt the taste" .All their palaces were build because of stolen gold of Dacia.Everywhere they used to kill 30-100%of local population,and in free time best entertanment for them were Gladiators games. What is educated Jezuits?Roman epire realized that to divide and to rule would be easyer with idea of "we are good,thoose are bad".Christianity ,mix of Zaraostrizm and arabic fairy tales,was invented for it.So Jezuits were those guys,who with sword and fire viped out all previous history.Galia,Tracia,Dacia turned into France,Bulgaria,Rumunia.Thousand years there were any discipline in universities exept religion.

Eesti is not baltic language, mayb this is why no reference.

@@turkoositerapsidi I had assumed that, but was not sure. Perhaps Estonian (Eesti) is more related to Finnish ( and Hungarian), but this just a guess. Thank you for your comment.

@@robertschlesinger1342 Finnish is a name that comes from swedes, that ruled over my land for ~1100-1809, the own name for my people and land is suomi, and i am suomian, eesti language is sometimes very understandable for me, but sometimes its too different to easily understan, karelian language is easier, but it has many more russian, or latin words got through russian. But baltic languages also have words from uralic lamguages, and if i remember right baltic peoples have more dna similarity to eesti and suomi, than to central-europeans. Hungarian (magyar) is also uralic but its very distant within this group, like relation of slavic and germanic in indo-europeans.

@@turkoositerapsidi Wow, what a great, informative reply. I really appreciate your reply, as will many others for years to come. Actually, I do recall that Finland is Suomi, and the reason may surprise many. In my youth, I was a stamp collector and Finnish stamps (and coins) had Suomi on them. There are few things like stamp collecting to learn some geography, including that of so-called dead or absorbed countries. Richard Feynman was famously a stamp collector in his youth, and could recall the most obscure countries, famously Tuva (not Tuvalu). Well, many thanks for you informative reply, and I have learned some interesting linguistic facts from it.

@@robertschlesinger1342 Well, yu are welcome. I do not say i myself am expert on this recard but as my own language is what it is, atleast that i know. However, i have looked at geography and peoples also. I happen to actually know what Tuva (Тыва in tuvan) is. It does still exist as a republic state (federal sibject) in Russija, there are several smaller nations in Russia. I have never visited that place tho.

Bullshit! You are too few already, focus on preserving Lithuanian and Latvian (and Estonian) and see others as museum pieces. The language is just an instrument. In an ideal world I would make you 10 million-people countries, but until then (the heavenly kingdom, maybe) keep close to all your neighbors. Countries with 2-3 million peoples can't even afford a crisis, so let the war jackals meeow to themselves! You don't need alarmism, pessimism, hyperoptimism - just keep yourselves sane and enjoy the life, as you are beautiful peoples with beautiful cultures. And if you see the Estonian girl that I met in Sweden, tell her I am so sorry we didn't talk more (yes, Estonian I said).

Unfortunately last person speaking Prussian died few years ago

@@xoopss last natives died 300 years ago, but now there are some native new prussian speakers

@@lithuanian_mapper Yes, people who discover they have Prussian ancestors, try to learn Prussian from some old sources. Not many, but still.

@@LateVidzo Theres quite enough sources to learn the language, and they are on the internet

There is the movement to revive Old Prussian in Lithuania and there are people who can speak Old Prussian ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JimRrI7Y-O0.html

In Poland on old prussian land are some prussian speakers. Link to more info m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XwsXhYU44k.html:

nope.

Yep

Im quite sure avestan is closest to sanskrit.

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Avestan was formally written many centuries after the 1st book of Sanskrit.

@@infinite5795 Even if so, so?

1) Its more symilar to latviešu language. 1-1) No. Latgaļi make up the largest ammount of latviešu blood, then comes zemgaļi, then kurši, then sēļi, then lībieši, then saxons. 1-2) The only grammar I have ever studdied is that of the literary language so cant say. 1-3) No no no, no. Firstly there is no such things a pure language they all have influence for each other. Lībiešu influence latviešu language is minimal, this can be best seen comparing latviešu language to the lībiešu dialect of latviešu language that does have heavy lībiešu influence. Latgaliešu dialect has russian influence. Lietuviešu language has polish influence. And conjugating words to give meaning is not only a finik thing is an indo europian thing that the germanic language have lost thus they resort to "in, at". 1-4) All surviving baltic languages are what I call middle baltic what in this video is called east baltik. Prūši spoke a west baltik language. 1-5) The word Latvija comes from the word Latgale. 2) Latgaliešu is a dialect. Its completely understandable to us latviešiem. There are no sub ethnic groups Latvijā, there are outright foreigners tho mainly in the form of 500 000 slavs. 3) Id actually say all dialects will largely be repalced by the literary language in the next 100 years. Differences will still remain but they will be tiny by comparison to those of 200 years ago.

Nepiekritīšu. Mēs vidzemnieki esam īstie latgaļi jūs latgalieši esat pusrusificēti tādēļ tā dīvaini runājat. Mūsdienās seno latgaļu valodu neprot neviens.

Only the Prussian could be revived. The rest are possibly gone for good.

depending on who you ask, Samogitian and Latgale are also surviving Baltic languages

cause the balto slavic branch never existed lol

Wdym Latin never conquered the baltics they never conquered it with language or conquered it into its empire the only way it conquered is by having pretty much the same alphabet

Dėkui is Slavic word and you can't use it...Thank you in Lithuanian is ačiū

Pooky bear we can use dėkuj as our world cause it exists in our vocabuliary.

@@andrejastankunaite1829 Ačiū is from finnic "aitah".

@@fidenemini111 No it's not. The origin of ačiū is unclear.

@Ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰹⱌⰰ That's because it's a slavic borrowing.

Where do you think slavic people came from? Panslavists might claim scythians but that is not reality.

cause we are related

@@villiusgelatin751 could be the case but it is interesting because thracians have settled in the region where bulgaria is today and that is like 2000km away from lithuania

Ancient Thracian is poorly attested, the similarities are same as in any info-European language.

Estonian is new word.

Estonians called themselves "maarahvas" until relatively recently. At the time of Tacitus they together with Baltic peoples had various tribal identities. Linguistic evidences point out to Aesti being Baltic peoples, for example, Lithuanian has preserved various place names with that root, including name of entire peninsula in East Prussia, which seems to be the area Tacitus mentions. Modern Eesti word comes from Germanic name of the area, initially it was associated only with "Estland proper", that is North Estonia. Word itself might come either from Germanic word for East or from Aesti. One clear evidence is that neighbouring Finns, Latvians and also Russians (historically) have different ethnonyms, (viro, igauņi, chud) for Estonians, in first 2 cases based on the closest areas to their lands (Virumaa and Ugandi) .

The name was of vague usage, but was mostly used for Balts. However, the name later drifted to Estonians.

You are confusing latgaļus and latgaliešus. Latgaļi are actually out of all the forming tribes most like modern latvieši language wise. (their language is extinct) Latgalieši speak half russified latviešu language. (this is spoken by about 150k people)

Why does one prioratize Lietuvu over Latviju when he belong to neither?

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 I think he’s Ukrainian

@@spitfire3797 I can see that, and say so?

Finnish, Hungarian, Russian.

@@vexillonerd Russian ? haha

@@aleksandrvasilev6723 Yes, Ruski, or also known in Ukraine as moskali (muscovites) are mixed finns and ruthenians (ukrainians) speaking old bulgarian language with roman/german influence.

@@vexillonerd haha))

@@aleksandrvasilev6723 Is this not true?

Pavadinime ir buvo parašyta "prasti", tuometine rašyba buvo užrašyta taip : Catechismusa prasty szadei. Bet reikšmė, aišku, atitinka "paprasti" šiuolaikine kalba. Žodžių reikšmės ir rašyba su laiku daugiau ar mažiau kinta

@@moniccckka Aciu uz pataisyma. Sito nezinojau, pagooglinau pavadinima, bet i virseli nepaziurejau.

I've been corrected, apparently the video is correct. The language changed in time and nowadays we're taught the version that I wrote. The actual book on the front page says it the way this video depicts.

Divi dažādas nozīmes vārdi : parasts un prasts .

Do Prussians still exist?

@@StefanDruga16 Not from the 17-18 century, but their language is getting revived, which I love

@@lithuanian_mapper As a Latvian I would love participating in the revival of the Prussian language, as they were once such a mighty nation. Also, most of the words sound very similar to me.

In Germany there is new Prussian language

Artis L dats why im going to learn latvian lel

Nice, what languages do you currently speak? Just curious

I currently speak English, but I have been relearning Polish.

Me too did same thing I scored 97% Baltic and only 3% eastern European, could not expect more from homogeneous population, and found over 1,6k people that share more or less same gens all over the world

I have the same.Old prussian genaticly didnt disappear. There are a lot of people like that in former pomezania region - from malbork towards grudziadz

@@UnterVSK There are virtually no Old Prussians in their historical lands. Those that the Red Army did not kill were driven to Germany in 1944.

It is true and i am speaking samogitian. It is diffrent from lithuanian. Atleast used to be

and Latvians look like elf to me at least xD

Also Latgalian it different than Latvian

@@bathroomrestorers1277 it's not a language it's dialect

@@austejaaust1027 No, that's a language.

Then again Estonians aren't Baltic. They're Finno-Ugric.

@@Javlafan Language wise yes gene wise no.

Nothing weird in that. Im 99% baltic also.

@@Javlafan genetically, they differ from the Finns (Finland) by at least half.

R1a isnt slavic. its older....

From my knowledge the indo-europeans that bred with finno-ugric people became the slavs and then the balts branched out from the slavs

@@danilapolesciuk4316 slavs branched from Baltic languages

Bezwzględny Pierożek We live well in Lithuania, its only that our people are greedy. Young folk dont want to work and believe fairy tails that their friends tell them about working overseas. In reality you can live here and live well, we have good school system, cities are beutiful and recently even small towns have been fully renovated and these days more people are coming back then going overseas. And yeah your polish agenda that Vilnius is polish is stupid and offensive.

@@ddlithuania819 You can thank to catholics they made that movement. And ofcorse Pilsudski wanted restore commonwealth he got refuse so he take by force.

Actually, Euro currency helped to boost salaries and pensions. But not everyone likes to admit it.

@@GeneratorOfDarkness and prices became higher

@@Wiktorino1984 Pilsudski was deluded with outdated (stranglelly enough also in combination with predated) ideas.

And in 1413 a baptism of Samogitia. So in fact four times. Teutons didn't bother to christianize them while Samogitians were under their rule. This happened only after Samogitia was taken back to Lithuania.

yeah christian spead by the sowrd then😂