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From: "msjallen" <>
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] Romania and Lithuania
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 22:44:06 -0400
References: <002001c31bec$1c24a020$56076818@JonHart>


There are many published resources documenting Lithuanian as one of the
world's oldest SPOKEN languages, if not the oldest. Linguistic
archeologists have (published) evidence showing Lithuanian and Sanskrit as
parallel roots at the base of modern languages branches. What came before
is still unknown. Your aunt was not "off base" in saying that Lithuanian
was the oldest SPOKEN language. But it did not exist in written form until
the Middle Ages and the Lithuanian language, like many others at the time,
also underwent radical changes in the early part of this century. Today's
Lithuanian language is very different from the "traditional" Lithuanian to
which your aunt undoubtedly referred.
Of course there are also many published sources that dispute this too and it
depends on which body of evidence with which you choose to align yourself.
I keep an open mind and always try to look at all viewpoints available,
reminding myself that there were also large bodies of evidence and published
resources disputing Copernicus' heliocentric theory of the solar system
(based on documented evidence) and Columbus' theory that the world was round
(also based on documented evidence).
Sharon A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Boy & T Hart" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] Romania and Lithuania


> I think you are correct David. My dear Aunt, Michalina Vitartus, used to
> tell me that Lithuanian was based on the ancient Greek and Latin. She even
> believed that Lithuanian was the oldest language spoken in our entire
> civilization!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "David Zincavage" <>
> To: <>
> Date: Friday, May 16, 2003 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] Romania and Lithuania
>
>
> >There is nothing new about this nonsense either. It was invented by
Jonas
> >Basanavicius to flatter the Lithuanian-speaking peasants with grandiose
> >stories that the Greek and Roman civilzations of Antiquity were really
> >created by Balts.
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Egijus Sinkus" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:47 AM
> >Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] Romania and Lithuania
> >
> >
> >> > is actually a Romance language, i.e. one descended from Latin.
> Romania
> >was
> >> > in Antiquity the Roman province of Dacia.
> >> Hello,
> >> Dakia have another name too - Trakia. In Lithuanian language word
> >"trakas" or "trakija" means "glade, cutting, underwood". Also Trakai was
> >capital of Lithuania in medieval times.
> >>
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