Similarities Between Sanskrit and Lithuanian

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  • čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
  • Lithuanian and Sanskrit are both Indo-European language that have a lot in common. Even though Lithuanian has changed over the past thousands of years, the change has not been as much as other Indo-European languages, and hence Lithuanian has retained many old features which are found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit.
    In this video we explore some of the commonalities between the two languages, with Arnika, representing Sanskrit, and Paulius representing Lithuanian.
    Paulius' Instagram page: / pauliusjuodis93
    Link to the episode I took part in on Paulius' podcast (The Ink Well): • The Persian Language, ...
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    I would like to point out that in the subtitles, the ":" is missing after क, it should be "क:", and hence in the transliteration, it should read kaḥ to accommodate for it.
    Sanskrit (संस्कृत) is one of the oldest Indo-Aryan languages. It is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and some texts of Buddhism and Jainism. Today, Sanskrit is still spoken as a primary language in some parts of India. Sanskrit has had a significant impact on languages outside of the Indian subcontinent. Sanskrit manuscripts and inscriptions have been found in China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Mongolia, Thailand, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Japan, and other parts of the world. It is very common to find words that are derived from Sanskrit in Chinese, Sino-Tibetan languages, Thai, Khmer, and Lao. Austronesian languages, such as Javanese, Malay, Tagalog, and Indonesian, also derive a portion of their vocabulary from Sanskrit. European languages, including English, also contain words derived from Sanskrit.
    Lithuanian is a Baltic language spoken primarily in Lithuania where it is the official language. It is also one of the official languages of the European Union. Lithuanian is unique in the sense that it is one of only two living Baltic languages, along with Latvian, and among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian has retained many old features which are found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit or ancient Greek. This makes Lithuanian an important language despite a small number of native speakers, since the language is very vital for reconstructing the Proto-Indo-European language. For several decades, the Lithuanian language was banned in education and publishing. This was due to an uprising the Russian Empire, and the ban was placed on the Lithuanian language by Mikhail Muravyov, the Russian Governor General of Lithuania, barring the use of the Latin alphabet altogether. Lithuanian books, however, continued to be printed across the border in East Prussia and smuggled into the country.

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  • @LithuanianwithPaulius
    @LithuanianwithPaulius Před 2 dny +15

    Hi guys! This is Paulius, the Lithuanian speaker from the video. 🙋‍♂
    If you want to learn Lithuanian, I invite you to check out my comprehensible Lithuanian podcast for foreign students. 🎧

  • @user-ob7jp1kz2o
    @user-ob7jp1kz2o Před 7 měsíci +958

    I am an Indian and understood almost all the Lithuanian words! The similarity is striking! However, the sentences were difficult.

    • @deividaszubLT
      @deividaszubLT Před 7 měsíci +27

      It's because trough time our pronunciation changed a lot here is an example of how people talks in villages up to this day czcams.com/video/S2RCQTFX6UU/video.html&ab_channel=Balticfolk

    • @alaskapollock8750
      @alaskapollock8750 Před 7 měsíci +9

      congrats to India

    • @user-xn2zd7bl1u
      @user-xn2zd7bl1u Před 5 měsíci +15

      I guess you learned Sanskrit. As far as I know, Hindi is not as similar to Lithuanian as Sanskrit.

    • @gauravsharma_7
      @gauravsharma_7 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@user-xn2zd7bl1uHindi is basically Prakrit+Sanskrit, Prakrit came out of Sanskrit.

    • @Anonymous-8080
      @Anonymous-8080 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@user-xn2zd7bl1uthose who know Hindi can understand Sanskrit too as Hindi is derived from Sanskrit.

  • @lokeshk4642
    @lokeshk4642 Před 8 měsíci +2255

    The cultural minister of Lithuania thanked India for Sanskrit 2 years back. Many Eastern European languages and German has close similarities to Sanskrit but Lithuanian is the closest .

    • @1hindu-sthaani558
      @1hindu-sthaani558 Před 8 měsíci +146

      Because of Sanskrit is base, sanskrit is world's oldest language at least few lacs year
      Same as Sanatan Hindu Dharm 🚩 🔱 🕉

    • @CosmosChill7649
      @CosmosChill7649 Před 8 měsíci

      "Sanskrit" is the language of the supremacist Aryans ( brahmins ) who rule India currently
      It is believed to be a codified language, made up by the supremacists, and has not historical background

    • @msaw504
      @msaw504 Před 8 měsíci +56

      ​@@1hindu-sthaani558 Sanskrit is a few lacs years old? Phew.
      You want to hear something even crazier? In daily hawans that we do during Sandhya (dawn and twilight), we utter current date which is equivalent to 1,960,853,124 years as of now and keeps on increasing everyday. So, does this mean Sanskrit is at least 1,960,853,124 years old?

    • @anti_fascist
      @anti_fascist Před 8 měsíci

      @@1hindu-sthaani558 abbey jaa, sanskrit was derived from Pali, it is NOT the oldest language in the world stop peddling lies upper caste dindu scum

    • @cardboard_hat
      @cardboard_hat Před 8 měsíci +95

      ​@@1hindu-sthaani558civilizations ain't even that old my guy

  • @Diego-de6dq
    @Diego-de6dq Před 5 měsíci +315

    I'm kurdish, and I saw a lot of similarities with the majority of the words with my own language. Awsome to see the similar Indo-European words used in many of our languages.

    • @evdalzarrinolbistan
      @evdalzarrinolbistan Před 3 měsíci +19

      Kurdish (Kurmanci): Smoke=Dûxan, Dream-Aşop, Fire=Agir, Tooth-Diran, Who-Kî, Honey-Hingiv, Wind-Ba, God-Xweda, Wawe=Pêl, Old-Salmend, Your-Te, Day-Roj, To live-Jiyîn

    • @Chaprii_hu
      @Chaprii_hu Před 3 měsíci +6

      ​@@evdalzarrinolbistanAryans 🗿

    • @Aceliious
      @Aceliious Před 3 měsíci +8

      @@Chaprii_hu Aryans are the birth of civilization

    • @Chaprii_hu
      @Chaprii_hu Před 3 měsíci

      @@Aceliious where are you from I am from india

    • @RajnishMirikar-bq5cv
      @RajnishMirikar-bq5cv Před 2 měsíci +5

      @@Aceliious no aryans are hindu they go from indian in west and civilized the west part the indus civilization more than older than 5000 yeras and aryans are part of this civilization

  • @unzipmygenes8252
    @unzipmygenes8252 Před 5 měsíci +55

    This is fascinating.
    I'm studying Sanskrit, so could see for myself how many of the Lithuanian words make sense.

    • @nastybadger-tn4kl
      @nastybadger-tn4kl Před 4 dny

      SANSKRIT is plagiarized from TAMIL. All languages came from TAMIL not sanskrit. Half the english came from tamil. so is mandarin. so is korean.

    • @cracked8349
      @cracked8349 Před 2 dny

      ​@@nastybadger-tn4klrespectfully no

    • @nastybadger-tn4kl
      @nastybadger-tn4kl Před 2 dny

      @@cracked8349 you are brainwashed!

  • @artrihs
    @artrihs Před 7 měsíci +1521

    As Latvian it was very interesting, because Lietuva is our bralukai and Sanskrit sounded similar to Latvian as well.

    • @Sarkarifilmyrecap
      @Sarkarifilmyrecap Před 7 měsíci +40

      Your ancient practices are also similar to "vedic Dharma". Like fire worship. We call it "yagna" and it's an integral part of Hindu Dharma (modern form of Vedic Dharma)

    • @parmykumar8592
      @parmykumar8592 Před 7 měsíci +19

      The Greeks were always speaking of India as the sacred territory of Dionysus and historians working under Alexander the Greek clearly mentions chronicles of the Puranas as sources of the myth of Dionysus." Alain Danielou - 1907-1994.
      ~
      “Is it not probable that the Brahmins were the first legislators of the earth, the first philosophers, the first theologians ? The Greeks, before the time of Pythagoras, travelled into India for instruction.”
      ~ Voltaire.
      ~
      Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India. ~ Ludwig von Shroeder
      ~
      It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the West, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy, fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.” Will Durant - American Historian.
      ~
      The history of how Indian fairy tales and fables migrated from one country to another to nearly all the people of Europe and Asia and even to African tribes from their original home in India borders on the marvellous. It is not a case of single stories finding their way by way of mouth ..... from India to other countries but of whole Indian books becoming through the medium of translations the common property of the world .... many fairy tales current among the most various people can be traced to their original home in India - A.A.Macdonell".
      ~
      The oldest Greek writers, observes Sir William Jones, allow that their mythologies were not their own invention (As. Res. III. 467) ; and it is now certain that the early divinities and legends of Greece were the same that were possessed by their brethren in India. If Hegel calls the discovery of the common origin of Greek and Sanskrit the discovery of a new world, the same may be said with regard to the common origin of Greek and Sanskrit mythology “ The legends of the Old Testament - Thomas Lumisden Strange.
      ~
      Mark Twain, American author: "India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only."
      ~
      Will Durant, American historian: "India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all".
      ~
      In the Vedic language we have the foundation, not only of the glowing legends of Hellas (Greece), but of the dark and sombre mythology of the Scandinavian and the Teuton" (Cox, Mythology of the Aryan Nations, I., 52, 53).
      ~
      Takshashila University
      Taxila as it is called today, Takshashila University established around 2700 years ago was home to over 10500 students where the students from all across the world used to come to attain specialization in over 64 different fields of study like vedas, grammar, philosophy, ayurveda, agriculture, surgery, politics, archery, warfare, astronomy, commerce, futurology, music, dance, etc. Famous graduates of this university include the ones like Chanakya, Panini, Charaka, Vishnu Sharma, Jivaka, etc. This is the world’s oldest university.
      ~
      India - the land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
      ~ Wheeler Wilcox.
      ~
      Gravitation was known to the Indians before the birth of Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of.
      ~ P. Johnstone
      ~
      "This is an attempt to show that the Druids were the priests of Oriental colonies who emigrated from India and were the introducers of the first or Cadmean system of letters and the builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of other Cyclopean works in Asia and Europe”. Godfrey Higgins "The Celtic Druids”
      ~
      “I take issue with the old school of thought that the cultural and civic life we Westerners enjoy originated in the works of Greek and Roman philosophers. Instead the mind and soul that inspired our words sprang from neither Greece nor Rome, but from an Indo/euro homeland located much further north. In truth according to my studies the history of we Westerners does not begin with the Greeks, we were invented along with the Greeks by Vedic poet seers through their mother tongue, Sanskrit, which evolved into Greek and Latin, which are simple phonetic variants of it.“ Franco Rendich - Indo/European etymology

    • @AAKASHH367
      @AAKASHH367 Před 7 měsíci +10

      Takshashila was a Buddhist University at that time The student came across the world for studies. Buddhism is the first Indian religion that crossed borders first & of course Sanskrit came later from Indo Eurasian invaders. Languages which were in india prakrut pali & Dravidian much older than Sanskrit.

    • @Dexorfs
      @Dexorfs Před 7 měsíci +20

      Amazing, right?
      The funny part was that the sentences were more difficult to pick up, but almost all the words that were shared with Sanskrit, also have a counterpart in latvian. I always thought our languages were similar because we lived so nearby, but I guess it's also largely due to their common ancestry!

    • @perpetuallearner8257
      @perpetuallearner8257 Před 7 měsíci +3

      @@AAKASHH367 yes you're right 👍🏻

  •  Před 8 měsíci +887

    Very interesting! Greetings from Lithuania 🇱🇹♥️🇮🇳

    • @KESHAVKUMAR-fk8ff
      @KESHAVKUMAR-fk8ff Před 8 měsíci +29

      🇮🇳❤🇱🇹

    • @saurabhsingh5263
      @saurabhsingh5263 Před 8 měsíci +13

      ​​@@KESHAVKUMAR-fk8ff❤ from India 🇮🇳

    • @paulengels6926
      @paulengels6926 Před 8 měsíci +19

      Labas. Married to a Lithuanian. Fascinating history, culture, language, food. Love it.

    • @jijinsundar2497
      @jijinsundar2497 Před 7 měsíci +9

      Love from 🇮🇳

    • @Hitaro69
      @Hitaro69 Před 7 měsíci +8

      Greetings from India🙏

  • @renukaporwal780
    @renukaporwal780 Před 5 měsíci +47

    Wonderful similarities between Lithuanian and Sanskrit 😊

  • @krayxeez
    @krayxeez Před měsícem +43

    this is the most interesting connection between languages, I'm so fascinated by this. Thank you so much for making this video!

  • @agungbimantaraputra3744
    @agungbimantaraputra3744 Před 8 měsíci +2345

    As an indonesian and javanese speaker. I can understand agni (agni/geni in Javanese), vayu (Bayu in Javanese), Madhu (Madu in Javanese/Indonesian), dina (dina in Javanese), and Deva (Dewa in Javanese/Indonesian).
    I think Javanese (Basa Jawa) got more influence from sanskrit than Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)

    • @proudtobeaninfidelkafirand7471
      @proudtobeaninfidelkafirand7471 Před 8 měsíci +58

      I used to enjoy Gudang Garam :)

    • @krishna-de2jb
      @krishna-de2jb Před 8 měsíci +120

      Just a simple fact. The word bahasa in bahasa Indonesia itself means language. So it means the Indonesian language.😂

    • @diablodelfuego6633
      @diablodelfuego6633 Před 8 měsíci +195

      Bahasa is also from Sanskrit word for language "Bhaasha" भाषा

    • @sahashranshubarik9204
      @sahashranshubarik9204 Před 8 měsíci +31

      @@proudtobeaninfidelkafirand7471 , yes, I too used to enjoy Gudang Garam , spicy cigarette. 😂

    • @godknifetube
      @godknifetube Před 8 měsíci +64

      When I worked in Jakarta I understood many Bahasa Indonesia words as they had Sanskrit roots! Your name also has Sanskrit words Biman Tara Putra! Words such as Bhinneka, Rasa, Dirgh Aayu, are all from Sanskrit.

  • @shiny9009
    @shiny9009 Před 7 měsíci +1128

    As a Lithuanian, I knew it was connected to Sanskrit, but I have never ever imagined it to be so similar! That is really interesting video!

    • @ishanabhavsar
      @ishanabhavsar Před 7 měsíci +18

      At least you knew it was connected. I was clueless until this video popped up because I've subscribed channel. Very informative. And I'll be learning more about Lithuania now too 😊

    • @KanadMondal
      @KanadMondal Před 7 měsíci +29

      Both are conservative and very old Indo-European languages. Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian branch was always rather closely connected and some think they have a common source later than the Corded Ware Culture. Indo-Iranians and Balto-Slavs are also R1a rather than R1b. Maybe you now all of this, but there is a reason we are similar beyond Indo-European connection. :D

    • @NeerajKumar-is2oh
      @NeerajKumar-is2oh Před 7 měsíci +9

      Sanskrit is mother of all labguage

    • @ganjus0055
      @ganjus0055 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Authors forgot that we have samogitian lithuanian dialect that sometimes is even more similar.

    • @czmonja
      @czmonja Před 7 měsíci +13

      ​@@NeerajKumar-is2ohno😂

  • @Vermont2023
    @Vermont2023 Před měsícem +21

    Such INTELLIGENT speakers!!
    You are all the BEST!!
    Keep up your presentations!! The world needs you.

    • @theinkwellpod
      @theinkwellpod Před 29 dny +2

      Thanks a bunch! I'm glad that you enjoyed our talk. Much love from Lithuania. :)

    • @ArniPara
      @ArniPara Před 16 dny

      Thank you so much for your kind words :)

    • @MrZabao
      @MrZabao Před 8 dny

      I was looking for that comment to join it 😊 you’re so beautifully interacting, joy and pleasure on your faces are so suggestive 😊 hugs from Poland

  • @sohinibiswas5478
    @sohinibiswas5478 Před 5 měsíci +11

    Wonderful video. Thanks for the effort. Congratulations to the team behind. ❤❤❤

  • @thraciensis3589
    @thraciensis3589 Před 8 měsíci +835

    Lithuanian needs to be preserved and spread all around at all cost. What a fascinating language that is!

    • @varoonnone7159
      @varoonnone7159 Před 8 měsíci +89

      It was the last European country to be christianised in 1387

    • @GinGerani
      @GinGerani Před 8 měsíci +33

      Love it: I listened to the lituanian sutartines :D

    • @Radamirs
      @Radamirs Před 8 měsíci +24

      The same for LATVIAN!

    • @thraciensis3589
      @thraciensis3589 Před 8 měsíci +36

      @@varoonnone7159 Brutal vicious, murderous crusades had been done to christianize pagan Lithuanians, other pagan Baltics. Crusades had been done to Orthodox Christians, Apostolic Christians, Bogomil Christians, Cathar Christians, Protestants, Muslims and to many others. These are unbelievably sad parts of the history!!!

    • @varoonnone7159
      @varoonnone7159 Před 8 měsíci

      @@thraciensis3589
      The Islamic invasions of Persia and India, the invention of the black slave trade and its practice for 800 years by arabo-muslims, the genocides of Circassians by Orthodox Russians, Pontic Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians by Muslim Ottomans and the enslavement of white Balkans by North African Muslims were equally brutal and horrendous
      The Abrahamic religions are quite a curse

  • @birajguha4797
    @birajguha4797 Před 7 měsíci +625

    This video BLEW MY MIND! As a Bengali Speaker, I learnt a lot of Sanskrit words as a child, and Lithuanian has so many of them almost identical!

    • @liucijusuberkindas112
      @liucijusuberkindas112 Před 7 měsíci +28

      Greetings from Lithuania!!! ;)

    • @rolandas77
      @rolandas77 Před 7 měsíci +32

      because we were one nation/tribe 15-20 000 years ago :)

    • @Tomas-hj1xv
      @Tomas-hj1xv Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@rolandas77👍👍👍😂😂😂

    • @orcaokayork999
      @orcaokayork999 Před 7 měsíci +2

      OhmyGaadoheDuggaDugga.

    • @mildacha8050
      @mildacha8050 Před 7 měsíci +7

      Oh yes! For example:
      In Bengali you say "Mishti sopno"
      And in Lithuanian we say "Saldžių sapnų" :)

  • @eekamoose
    @eekamoose Před 17 dny +5

    With a Master’s in Applied Linguistics I found this absolutely fascinating. I guessed some of the words because they are so similar to Latin. And what charming people you are. What’s not to like about this video? 😊

    • @claudioferrara4455
      @claudioferrara4455 Před 13 dny +1

      I’m an Italian speaker and I studied Latin and Greek in grammar school. I could guess all the words except banga (the Latin equivalent would be unda, I’m not familiar enough with linguistics to tell whether you can get from banga to unda through phonetical changes).

  • @segapi8373
    @segapi8373 Před 4 dny +3

    Thank you very much, it was very interesting! 10 years ago I spend some time in Lithuania as learn vedic philosophy that time, I notice quite big similarities in this both languages. I mean many of Indo European languages have similar words. But this one probably with the most similarity.

  • @shantanushekharsjunerft9783
    @shantanushekharsjunerft9783 Před 8 měsíci +680

    I had a Bosnian roommate in college and I could quite accurately guess his conversation with his parents. There are so many Sanskrit sounding words, it’s unbelievable.

    • @prstcufh
      @prstcufh Před 8 měsíci +69

      In Serbia and Bosnia we speak the same language. I was also amazed hearing some Sanskrit conversations of which I could make out the meaning. By the way, we also have 7 cases and the word order in our sentences is also irrelevant!

    • @username_PK
      @username_PK Před 8 měsíci +21

      ​@@prstcufhwhere did you hear someone having conversations in Sanskrit that is very rare

    • @prstcufh
      @prstcufh Před 8 měsíci +19

      @@username_PK in India a couple of years ago.

    • @utubetruthteller
      @utubetruthteller Před 8 měsíci +29

      @@username_PK sanskrit mantras are commonly recited everywhere

    • @KingshukMonsur
      @KingshukMonsur Před 8 měsíci +18

      @@username_PK south Asian immigrant's are everywhere and Bangla,hindi/urdu are literary sanskirt language with large amount of loan words from Arabic, Turkic and Persian but still mostly Sanskrit

  • @mordechaifogel6069
    @mordechaifogel6069 Před 8 měsíci +306

    Lithuanian has actually been theorized to be the least changed Indo-European language from the original, so it makes sense but still very surprising.

    • @ppn194
      @ppn194 Před 8 měsíci +12

      Add Latvian

    • @ArrowBast
      @ArrowBast Před 8 měsíci +6

      @@ppn194 Maybe Latvian even 'purer' in native IE terminology. Sanskrit itself has Dravidian Influence events from earliest times.

    • @FlankCobra
      @FlankCobra Před 8 měsíci +4

      I can't find it now, but I heard a new study suggest that Lithuanian can be even older than Sanskrit and is closer to what Arians actually spoke.

    • @daveprasad
      @daveprasad Před 8 měsíci +13

      @@FlankCobrathat does not make sense given archaeological and scholarly research

    • @garmr214
      @garmr214 Před 7 měsíci +11

      @@FlankCobrathat makes absolutely zero sense

  • @paoladecesare24000
    @paoladecesare24000 Před 4 měsíci +9

    Che bella idea hai avuto con il tuo canale. È molto interessante. Graziee 🙏💜💡

  • @nishan0309
    @nishan0309 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Had requested this a while back thank you so much @bahador❤

  • @Apache148414
    @Apache148414 Před 8 měsíci +264

    As a Nepalese who took Sanskrit till 5th grade and a basketball fan (many Lithuanians in NBA), it was very interesting that the 2 languages have so much in common. Mind blown 🤯

    • @urosmarkovic9193
      @urosmarkovic9193 Před 7 měsíci +10

      Serbian Is also simular to both languagea , And we Are better then Lithuanians in basketball

    • @benas_st
      @benas_st Před 6 měsíci +2

      Love that argumentation xD

    • @rcg2144
      @rcg2144 Před 6 měsíci +2

      ​@@urosmarkovic9193All Slavic languages in including Russian too

    • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
      @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@@urosmarkovic9193serbian play football ⚽ and of course the tennis player 🐐

    • @labambeiro
      @labambeiro Před 4 měsíci +1

      cool man :D do Nepalese like basketball also? in Lithuania we dont know how to play football but we know basketball. its our national sport 😂

  • @heresy1987LV
    @heresy1987LV Před 7 měsíci +171

    Latvian is like a non identical twin of Lithuanian so this video gives me shivers. Beautiful similarities.

    • @saloninavale3826
      @saloninavale3826 Před 2 měsíci

      Are there any similar words you have to what the girl is saying in Sanskrit?

    • @heresy1987LV
      @heresy1987LV Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@saloninavale3826 yes, basically Lithuanian and Latvian are as similar as Swedish and Norwegian. So it is just as similar to Sanskrit, we have words like Dievs meaning God and uguns meaning fire.

  • @eSupRx44
    @eSupRx44 Před 3 měsíci +2

    this has been an excellent competition. thank you for allowing me the chance of comparison! :D you are both so skilled!!!

  • @abhimahto8578
    @abhimahto8578 Před 4 měsíci +4

    It was very informative. I thank all three of you very much.

  • @shilarangarajan
    @shilarangarajan Před 8 měsíci +833

    I never imagined this connection between Sanskrit and Lithuanian…. It was a delightful episode 🙂

    • @haiga9290
      @haiga9290 Před 8 měsíci +46

      Being both indo-european and lithuanian being quite conservative make it less surprising tho

    • @prafful_sahu
      @prafful_sahu Před 8 měsíci +39

      Sanskrit is the mother of all eurashian languages

    • @liveforever141
      @liveforever141 Před 8 měsíci +71

      @@prafful_sahu wrong. Sanskrit and European languages are like cousins, but not descendants of one another.

    • @fidenemini111
      @fidenemini111 Před 8 měsíci +36

      @@prafful_sahu Both descended from the common PIE language which split in dialects which in turn distanced from each other and developed into separate Indo-European languages.

    • @tantuce
      @tantuce Před 8 měsíci +15

      ​@@liveforever141Lithuanian, Latvian and Sanskrit are temporaries. They existed at the same time back in the day.

  • @bedtimestoriesforkids9755
    @bedtimestoriesforkids9755 Před 8 měsíci +181

    Arnika describes the words so technically - "masculine, nominative, singular". I wish I could learn language in such a way that I can deconstruct it as beautifully as Arnika

    • @sakakaka4064
      @sakakaka4064 Před 8 měsíci +18

      It's the basics of linguistics - if you're interested, learn it. It's a fascinating science!

    • @bretlir
      @bretlir Před 8 měsíci +13

      Try taking a Latin class! Really helps you see language differently

    • @anti_fascist
      @anti_fascist Před 8 měsíci +2

      Degree hogi uske pass, as simple as that

    • @sunlit777
      @sunlit777 Před 7 měsíci +3

      you cannot learn Sanskrit without knowing this, because in sanskrit the word changes all the time depending on its relation to other words in the sentence, and the way it changes depends on what gender it is, and same applies to verbs, etc. An English speaker cannot comprehend how specific and accurate expression can be in the inflectional languages.

    • @Tesah77
      @Tesah77 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Finnish speakers learn to do this in school. I wonder whether it’s because the Finnish wealth in cases demand us to be able to deconstruct it.

  • @sopo.content
    @sopo.content Před 4 měsíci +16

    As a Tamil I appreciate your Indo-European Family even though I'm not part of it.

    • @studyhard-tl4bx
      @studyhard-tl4bx Před 4 měsíci +2

      Same. I am also Tamil. I love both Tamil and Sanskrit (mainly because of Om Sivoham Song).

    • @rajadahir2066
      @rajadahir2066 Před 4 měsíci +4

      You are a political tamil. That's why you are not part of it.

    • @sopo.content
      @sopo.content Před 4 měsíci +5

      @@rajadahir2066 Linguistically Tamil is not part of the Indo-European family of languages. I'm a Tamil by birth but politically I'm a citizen of India. I hope now you understand the difference between linguistics and politics.

    • @Aajkuchtoofanikartehai.
      @Aajkuchtoofanikartehai. Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​​​@@sopo.content First match your d.n.a with a north indian Brahmin's d.n.a. If, it does not match then I will be your slave for my whole life.
      "Half knowledge is dangerous bro".

    • @sopo.content
      @sopo.content Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@Aajkuchtoofanikartehai. 🤣😭🤮

  • @burqut
    @burqut Před 17 dny +4

    Bahador, this was an amazing video!

  • @glambor1
    @glambor1 Před 8 měsíci +599

    Latvian here🇱🇻🙂. historically 1000 years separate 🇱🇻 and 🇱🇹. we were one tribe waaayyyy back. loved this. We could easily do the same for Latvian and Sanskrit 👍

    • @Sachinrockzful
      @Sachinrockzful Před 8 měsíci +45

      Absolutely! Latvian-Lithuanian and Sanskrit have incredible closeness. We probably evolved from same ancestors

    • @JekabaKapnes
      @JekabaKapnes Před 8 měsíci +8

      c’mon! Latvian and Lithuanian tribes were never united (they had the wars instead).

    • @listenerererz
      @listenerererz Před 8 měsíci +24

      ​@@JekabaKapnesthat's just a sibling's jealoysity.

    • @EternalflameC.L.
      @EternalflameC.L. Před 8 měsíci +16

      @@JekabaKapnesyou are talking about close history..they are talking about ancestry ,common common sense!

    • @Sachinrockzful
      @Sachinrockzful Před 8 měsíci +9

      They obviously came from the same ancestors. And probably very recent- say 1500-1600 years ago

  • @IfSoGirl88
    @IfSoGirl88 Před 8 měsíci +353

    As a Lithuanian I found this very interesting but not surprising as I always knew my language has a lot in common with Sanskrit, one of the main reasons is that they both are ancient languages that haven't changed much over the centuries. Heck, I understand Sanskrit better than Latvian 😂

    • @alokm1233318
      @alokm1233318 Před 8 měsíci +1

      🙃

    • @tarunmedi
      @tarunmedi Před 8 měsíci +7

      yes... both have their roots in "aryan migration. "

    • @ravindra7791
      @ravindra7791 Před 8 měsíci +6

      That's surprising. Is Lithuanian closer to Sanskrit than it is to Latvian?

    • @thatweirdintjkiddo6251
      @thatweirdintjkiddo6251 Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@ravindra7791Thanks the great indo European milk drinkers!

    • @antrakirsone2992
      @antrakirsone2992 Před 8 měsíci +9

      ​@@ravindra7791Yes, because Lithuanians use more old forms of the words.

  • @akinvasion
    @akinvasion Před 5 měsíci +4

    I am amazed! Thank you for this video.

  • @therealzilch
    @therealzilch Před 20 dny +2

    Wow. What a wonderful combination of linguistics, reasoning, and charm.
    Thanks to all of you. Subscribed. Cheers from a language freak in rainy Vienna, Scott

  • @arsenijskabihno5336
    @arsenijskabihno5336 Před 8 měsíci +293

    As a Latvian speaker I also understood surprisingly lot from both of the languages

    • @friendlyatheist9589
      @friendlyatheist9589 Před 8 měsíci +17

      ancient brothers.

    • @abhishvsudhakar
      @abhishvsudhakar Před 8 měsíci +2

      @arsenijskabihno5336 I was in Latvia during my Erasmus study exchange program. Ive noticed lots of similarities between Latvian and Sanskrit. Especially pronounciation of numbers in Latvian

    • @pritsingh9766
      @pritsingh9766 Před 7 měsíci +4

      There is a language called tamil ,which was copied from sanskrit and use 30% sanskrit words .That's why you can see so many tamiI zombies whenever any video is related to sanskrit.

    • @prakashsivan1234
      @prakashsivan1234 Před 7 měsíci

      @@seethabedhikormastklgram Nobody is interested in your stupid theology. Dont poke yr DMK theory here.

    • @josejoseph8725
      @josejoseph8725 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @pritsingh9766 comedy😁 sanskrit got copied from tamil when it was introduced by speakers of eurasia🙂Indian government itself declared tamil as first classical language in 2004 and sanskrit in 2005😁 sanskrit itself descened from hurrian language that is why you see similarities between sanskrit and Lithuanian languages

  • @ArniPara
    @ArniPara Před 8 měsíci +542

    Such an honour to have been a part of this video and to have met Paulius through you, Bahador :) The more I look into these languages the more I realise how much there is to delve into. Thank you for the opportunity. I'm sure Paulius and I could have kept playing this game for a long time, so credit to you for keeping it crisp 🤭
    Oh, and the Sanskrit word for son that I referred to here is Soonu (सूनु).

    • @BahadorAlast
      @BahadorAlast  Před 8 měsíci +36

      Thank you Arnika! As always, it was a pleasure to have you be a part of it:)

    •  Před 8 měsíci +26

      Sūnus ( Soonus) in Lithuanian🤓

    • @vishalmalik0519
      @vishalmalik0519 Před 8 měsíci +15

      As a Sanskrit speaker, you did a great job. Hope you represent Sanskrit in future as well.

    • @Poriotics
      @Poriotics Před 8 měsíci +8

      I guess many languages have been evolved from Sanskrit

    • @uzstiklo7141
      @uzstiklo7141 Před 8 měsíci +20

      I was impressed by your pronunciation of Lithuanian words, Arnika. People who speak Germanic languages, for example, usually have a bit of a problem repeating our words:) Cheers from Lithuania!

  • @ApoorvaIyer-hh8pg
    @ApoorvaIyer-hh8pg Před 5 měsíci +7

    Hi Bahador, I’m a huge fan of your channel as a lay person deeply interested in history and etymology. You should have a Sanskrit and Latin version, with Polymathy from that channel. The proto indo European connection is strong and fascinating.

  • @BuchiOsorio
    @BuchiOsorio Před 5 měsíci +2

    Thank you, I found this very interesting and it helps to enlarge one's views of other cultures.

  • @chandrakantpatil983
    @chandrakantpatil983 Před 8 měsíci +233

    I visited Lithuania, very nice ancient nation .salute from India.

    • @alaskapollock8750
      @alaskapollock8750 Před 7 měsíci +7

      congrats to India

    • @jaichhabra6458
      @jaichhabra6458 Před 7 měsíci

      Why do Indians always like compare ourselves with others we seek Eupropean approval n recognition.ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A VISA OR JOB IN LITHUANIA?
      SNEAKY !!!

    • @juodagalvesniegena714
      @juodagalvesniegena714 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Lithuania is a nation that is old,it was created only a few hundred years ago basically by jews who took the minority language and forced everyone who is slavic to learn it,basically exterminating the real old languages like Samogitian because it was way to close to Russian culturally and the way language sounded,many dont know but Lithuania was created to basically be Israel for jews but it failed.For instance Vilnius used to be 70% jewish. They took the most western minority language,if you go to any museum before 16th century everyone wrote Ciricil and even before that same letters Russians had-runic.Latin letters and Christianity were introduced through genocide killing off the real culture and anyone who disagreed to convert to Judaic religion. Ukraine and Lithuania were created to be jewish land but then it failed and they are doing the same to Palestine now,I wonder if they will move Israel back to Ukraine now that it has been depopulated.Khazaria was basically old Israel,current emblems of Ukraine are Khazar.

    • @audriusvaitkevicius2185
      @audriusvaitkevicius2185 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@juodagalvesniegena714 Wow, what a clown you are, Samogitian is still alive today as a dialect and whole country would still understand it, also people wrote cyrillic (cricil?) because of close partner and neighbour Poland, in case you are not trolling but being serious here

    • @mbtopografija9180
      @mbtopografija9180 Před 6 měsíci

      @@juodagalvesniegena714 prasiplauk galva sudo gabale tu krw

  • @MichalBrat
    @MichalBrat Před 8 měsíci +309

    Slovak speaker here. I was really surpised how many of those words have a lot to do with their counterparts in my language. (Mádhu - Medus - Med, dhúmá - dúmas - dym...).

    • @Oberschutzee
      @Oberschutzee Před 8 měsíci +21

      We are all indoeuropeans

    • @MichalBrat
      @MichalBrat Před 8 měsíci +14

      @@Oberschutzee technically I know that, however, it is seldom so clearly manifested

    • @sahargubel2396
      @sahargubel2396 Před 8 měsíci +12

      Same about the Russian language

    • @MichalBrat
      @MichalBrat Před 8 měsíci +14

      @@sahargubel2396 sorry, but it's how you act, not how you speak, that determines who is a brother and who is not

    • @Oberschutzee
      @Oberschutzee Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@MichalBrat 💯

  • @paulgdlmx
    @paulgdlmx Před 5 měsíci +4

    Absolutely facinating, thank you

  • @burkcristacchio
    @burkcristacchio Před měsícem +15

    You can find so many similarities with ancient Latin too (And by extension Italian and English)! So fascinating
    Edit. I am going to list some examples of the Latin counterpart, giving a latin-derived English word when possible as well:
    Dhumas - Fumus (like in "fume")
    Sapna - Somnium
    Agni - Ignis (ignite)
    Dantis - Dentis (dentist)
    Ka - Quid
    Vyras - Vir (virile)
    Medha - Melis (Mead is an English word that comes to mind, possibly from a Germanic root)
    Deva - Deus
    Sanas - Senex (senate)
    Dina - Dies
    Gyventi - Vivere
    Avis - Ovis

    • @eekamoose
      @eekamoose Před 17 dny +1

      Great job, thanks for sharing the Latin words!

  • @pandoramurals7058
    @pandoramurals7058 Před 8 měsíci +94

    ❤from Australia 🇦🇺- father was Lithuanian and spoke 10 languages!

  • @tolyko9159
    @tolyko9159 Před 8 měsíci +41

    I'm speaking Lithuanian language and I'm shocked by the similarities

  • @AArrnnee
    @AArrnnee Před 9 dny +2

    This is so cool ! Thnak you for this video

  • @anandawijesinghe6298
    @anandawijesinghe6298 Před 8 měsíci +541

    As a Sinhala speaker from Sri Lanka, I understood this perfectly ! Sinhala is derived from Sanskrit, therefore is closely related to Hindi from India, and to the Maldivian Divehi which is derived from Sinhala. Greek is also an IE language related to Sanskrit and I understand Greek intuitively ! These Indo-European links are deep seated and have survived dispersion through space and time! Truly amazing indeed ! Thank you for this entertaining demonstration of our shared family links! 🇱🇰 ! 🙏 !

    • @chandra_has
      @chandra_has Před 8 měsíci +14

      It's so fascinating first sanskrit speakers got out casted from Baltic Sea area.... After they reached India... Stayed for few centuries Then sri vijaya got out casted to Sri Lanka for misdeeds ... Bringing his language and out cast people who were half shaved head.... From their sinhalese started... Such awesome and inspirational linguistic history.

    • @MsLizzie50
      @MsLizzie50 Před 8 měsíci +29

      ​@@chandra_hasno. The Sanskrit speakers went from India to other countries. There are migratory evidences.

    • @mayanksrivastava9313
      @mayanksrivastava9313 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Fuk Tamil

    • @infinite5795
      @infinite5795 Před 8 měsíci +6

      ​@@chandra_hasno even European languages aren't native to Europe like Sanskrit, they came from the Caucasus mountains.

    • @chandra_has
      @chandra_has Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@MsLizzie50
      The following are evidence found till date which scientifically accepted unlike youtube evidence.
      The most common theory is that Sanskrit was brought to India by Indo-Aryan-speaking peoples who migrated from Central Asia. These peoples are thought to have arrived in India around 1500 BCE, and they brought their language with them.
      The linguistic evidence for this theory is strong. Sanskrit is closely related to other Indo-European languages, such as Greek, Latin, and Persian. This suggests that Sanskrit and these other languages share a common ancestor, which was spoken in Central Asia.
      The archaeological evidence for this theory is also strong. There have been a number of archaeological sites found in Central Asia that date to the 2nd millennium BCE. These sites have yielded evidence of Indo-Aryan-speaking peoples, including pottery, tools, and weapons.
      However, there is also some evidence that suggests that Sanskrit may have developed in India from a pre-existing language. This evidence comes from the study of the Dravidian languages, which are spoken by some of the indigenous peoples of India. The Dravidian languages are not related to Sanskrit, but they share some similarities with it. This suggests that Sanskrit may have developed from a Dravidian language, or that the two languages had a common ancestor.

  • @leonig01
    @leonig01 Před 8 měsíci +1153

    Totally blew my mind. Would have never thought such distant languages would have that many cognates.
    Edit: After getting so much useful info in the comments I hereby realize what an illiterate jerk I was for not realizing these two were both less changed versions of the Proto Indo European language. Me not being a linguist cannot serve as an excuse, so please accept my sincerest apologies ;)

    • @theinkwellpod
      @theinkwellpod Před 8 měsíci +41

      There's more! It was a great collaboration, thanks Bahador and Arnika!

    • @AmicusAdastra
      @AmicusAdastra Před 8 měsíci +10

      It’s the same for Basque and Quechua

    • @JYHRO0
      @JYHRO0 Před 8 měsíci +19

      @@AmicusAdastraquechua and basque? I don’t believe that. But that would be quite a revelation if true

    • @JYHRO0
      @JYHRO0 Před 8 měsíci +10

      I’m not overly surprised but I wonder if the words had been chosen to be so similar. Probably not random.
      In any case thank you it was interesting.
      One funny thing when she said we still have the seven declensions; of course sanscrit did not evolve, it is a dead language😂

    • @pauldimarco7634
      @pauldimarco7634 Před 8 měsíci +24

      Perhaps just as crazy is that most of those have cognates in English as well! I knew a few but had to look up most of these: fume, somno-, ignite, dental, virile, mead, vent/wind, divine/deus, bank, senior, thou, quick/vivo
      I love this stuff and enjoyed this video thoroughly!

  • @user-um5om7iw5l
    @user-um5om7iw5l Před 6 měsíci +2

    What an interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

  • @raunee100
    @raunee100 Před 6 měsíci +2

    This is amazing!!!👏👏👏

  • @rohitchaoji
    @rohitchaoji Před 8 měsíci +200

    I had read about Lithuanian being one of the few languages that still sounds closer to old Indo-European languages. It was fascinating to actually hear the similarities with one of the oldest preserved Indo-European languages.

    • @Qvadratus.
      @Qvadratus. Před 8 měsíci +13

      agni in Russian is ogon', jivati - zhit' or zhivot is the same root word and it means stomach, diena is of course den'.

    • @rohitchaoji
      @rohitchaoji Před 8 měsíci +16

      @@Cr00kedKnight But there's no way to determine if Sanskrit is the source. It's just one of the older languages of the family, and the oldest one that has been preserved. I know people love to say it is the source, but it's a rhetoric everyone likes to claim for their own language.

    • @indianboy59
      @indianboy59 Před 8 měsíci +2

      ​@@Cr00kedKnight "I find it hard to believe"
      That's your personal incredulity therefore not a problem with the argument or the evidence.

    • @AKumar-co7oe
      @AKumar-co7oe Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@indianboy59 and your obsessive sense of nationalism is not an argument for it

    • @akapbhan
      @akapbhan Před 8 měsíci

      @@Cr00kedKnight That's because of the use case of both the languages. People put the entire vedic scripture to memory and kept it as is. It's a language which was largely used by scholarly class and not by the masses. Whereas Lithuania is a living language which has to change based on interaction with other languages.

  • @varoonnone7159
    @varoonnone7159 Před 8 měsíci +209

    Holy cow ! I speak Hindi and understood the Lithuanian words immediately
    Actually, the Lithuanian words are closer to modern Hindi pronunciations than to Sanskrit which doesn't make much sense
    Lithuania was the last European country to be christianised in 1387

    • @varoonnone7159
      @varoonnone7159 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@SouthAsianDassHunter
      My grey eyed father is so fair, people think he's european
      I'm an Indo-Mauritian lawyer in France. My sister has a PhD in chemical engineering and works in Australia
      I feel closer to an educated Dravidian than to an intellectually deficient imbecile like you

    • @aleksanderpetkevic3857
      @aleksanderpetkevic3857 Před 8 měsíci +1

      So what that it was christianised the last? Do you think its connection to ancient languages automatically became weaker after that?

    • @SBH3356
      @SBH3356 Před 8 měsíci +20

      'Sapnas' was bang on

    • @varoonnone7159
      @varoonnone7159 Před 8 měsíci +27

      @@aleksanderpetkevic3857
      First, it's an interesting fact about Lithuania
      Second. It gives perspective on how the christianisation of Europe was gradual. Between Clovis' baptism in France and Christianity being adopted as official religion in Lithuania, 891 years passed
      Third. Christianisation brought Lithuania in the Western and Orthodox realms with an influx of Hebrew, Latin, Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages
      I'm no linguist but european pagans probably preserved a purer version of proto indo-european than converted ones?

    • @aleksanderpetkevic3857
      @aleksanderpetkevic3857 Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@varoonnone7159 Lithuanians were in contact with East Slavs way before the christianisation. Plus, pagan tribes were not isolated from their neighbours entirely and migrated and mixed with others.

  • @marinomusico5768
    @marinomusico5768 Před 4 měsíci +5

    AMAZING CONTENT ❤

  • @tanjazino9981
    @tanjazino9981 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Absolutely great. Perfectly interesting.

  • @kanhaibhatt913
    @kanhaibhatt913 Před 8 měsíci +91

    Man, these Indo Europeans huh ? Whoever they were, where ever they may have come from, they left such a huge legacy all across the world, its incredible.

    • @hijet3279
      @hijet3279 Před 8 měsíci

      There is two main theories of Indo-European areal origin:
      1. Yamnaya culture hypothesis
      2. Anatolian hypothesis
      If you want to discover more, you can google it))

    • @sahashranshubarik9204
      @sahashranshubarik9204 Před 8 měsíci

      European are Indian. Indian people went to Europe rather than their bullshit Arayan invasion theory. The ancestors of all the European today are the originally Indian. These so called historian will never do research and will never agree.

    • @autumnphillips151
      @autumnphillips151 Před 8 měsíci +4

      It is.

    • @Aniruddha197
      @Aniruddha197 Před 8 měsíci +10

      Change the word indo European to aryans. Arya is the word for these people. Arya means well cultured and well educated aka gentleman.

    • @kanhaibhatt913
      @kanhaibhatt913 Před 8 měsíci +16

      @@Aniruddha197 Aryas is reserved for the Indo-Iranians. Other IE people are not Aryas.

  • @akmaljaward
    @akmaljaward Před 7 měsíci +281

    As a Sinhalese speaker, I understand many words from both Lithuanian and sanskrit

    • @user-lh9cd8nq4j
      @user-lh9cd8nq4j Před 5 měsíci +3

      As an Odia speaker , me too ✌

    • @existenceuniverse6607
      @existenceuniverse6607 Před 5 měsíci +8

      I'm Bangali speaker
      And I can understand clearly
      Because Bengali is the closest living language to Sanskrit

    • @derkov
      @derkov Před 5 měsíci +8

      It's amazing to me.. I assumed that the whole of Sri Lanka speaks Dravidian languages such as Tamil... And as I have found out now, most of the Lankans speaks the Indo-Aryan language.. It's amazing, I've discovered something new. :)

    • @upuldhanushkagajanayake2719
      @upuldhanushkagajanayake2719 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ඔව් ඔව් මචං හීබෘ වලත් ඔහොමයි

    • @Sk-wm4ol
      @Sk-wm4ol Před 5 měsíci

      czcams.com/video/-MsDGOnNVXo/video.htmlsi=6IgKljFyOtHUB30N

  • @laimutedirmeikiene7366
    @laimutedirmeikiene7366 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Very interesting, thank you for sharing.

  • @AlessandraViero
    @AlessandraViero Před 5 měsíci +1

    This video is so interesting! I had no idea Lithuanian is so close to Sanskrit. Thanks and greetings from Italy.

  • @compatriot852
    @compatriot852 Před 8 měsíci +102

    It's nice seeing how many words Lithuanian has in common with those of India. Our languages are so conservative that it still retains most of its roots

  • @Tamo8
    @Tamo8 Před 8 měsíci +392

    I love this video, Lithuanian is like the last surviving ancient cousin of Sanskrit. I could correctly guess every word except for Banga. I have read somewhere that Lithuania was the last country in Europe to embrace Christianity which maybe why Lithuanians got to preserve their language for thousands of years. In Hindi, dream is called sapna so almost similar to sapnas. The similarities are truly astonishing.

    • @theinkwellpod
      @theinkwellpod Před 8 měsíci +60

      Hi! Thanks for the comment. Yes, Lithuania converted to Christianity due to political isolation in the late 14th century. Also, the language was banned during the Russian Empire’s occupation. Nonetheless, it still persevered underground and maintained its uniqueness and conservatism throughout the ages. :)

    • @arita2002
      @arita2002 Před 8 měsíci +18

      Lithuanian is not a last surviving cousin to Sanskrit. Both languages are Indo-European and there are still a lot of Indo-European languages exist on this planet.

    • @Tamo8
      @Tamo8 Před 8 měsíci +31

      @@arita2002 Yes, even I'm an Indo-European speaker, what I meant is Lithuanian is the last classical/ancient Indo-European which is still living. Sanskrit and Latin, both IE, are now dead and gave rise to Romance and Indo-Aryan languages but compared to both Lithuanian has remained relatively unchanged.

    • @philomelodia
      @philomelodia Před 8 měsíci +18

      I read somewhere that some of the peasants in Lithuania still secretly held on to pagan beliefs up until modern times and that now there is a movement to restore the worship of their old gods. I think it is called Rumova or something like that. This is extraordinary considering how brutally they were converted to Christianity during the northern crusades by the Teutonic Knights. They were not the last pagans in Europe though. Finland was pagan up until the 1600s. Their cousins further northhe, Saami were pagan up until like the 1800s. There’s supposedly a group in Russia called the Mari that retain their pagan beliefs unbroken even to this very day. Thing is though, their languages belong to the Fino Ugric not to the Indo-European family.

    • @infinite5795
      @infinite5795 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@philomelodiajust bogus myths. These all rootless pagan movements just copy-paste pure Hindu spiritual practices, but they have no historical basis, unlike the Hindus, the oldest and purest community and religion.

  • @Nithink_Tank
    @Nithink_Tank Před 5 měsíci +3

    1. This video is so interestingly presented :).
    I can imagine so many ways in which the video could have been drab and boring-but it was so we'll done :)
    2. Thanks for bringing this knowledge together. I am fascinated by the similarities :)

  • @ladycoconutsss
    @ladycoconutsss Před 2 měsíci +4

    That's really interesting! We are all connected in many ways.

  • @ptygr
    @ptygr Před 7 měsíci +85

    As a Czech I am surprised how similar are these Sanskrit words to the Czech ones. I dont understand sentences but words have very similar roots…

    • @mayfriday7777
      @mayfriday7777 Před 5 měsíci +3

      As well as to Russian ones

    • @nesezege
      @nesezege Před 5 měsíci +2

      and Polish...

    • @stilpet9051
      @stilpet9051 Před 5 měsíci +2

      And Bulgarian

    • @timirdogolon
      @timirdogolon Před 5 měsíci +2

      especially the tooth, Danti

    • @user-hb2ky3by7p
      @user-hb2ky3by7p Před 5 měsíci

      Еще бы ты не понимал, поскольку славяне были тем кто принес санскрт в индию и европу

  • @SR-mv2mf
    @SR-mv2mf Před 8 měsíci +76

    Omg I don’t even speak proper Sanskrit (though am Indian) and I guessed 70% of the Lithuanian words correctly

    • @perambu3441
      @perambu3441 Před 8 měsíci +2

      The Native sanskrit speakers brahmins are just as nomadic in the past like the roma gypsies. As bramins were nomads and therefore the influence of the other dialect(European, Russian and Asian) on sanskrit. Sanskrit is a mixture of many dialect and it has developed words from other language and dialect to make itself better.
      I would like to inform you that Sanskrit does not have its own script.

    • @anuragjain37
      @anuragjain37 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@perambu3441 its still much older than Tamil if you wanna prove something here.

    • @perambu3441
      @perambu3441 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@anuragjain37 There is no archaeological evidence that suggests Sanskrit Vedas are ancient, it is a false propaganda of Sanskrit scholars and supporters.

    • @vanisridhar5509
      @vanisridhar5509 Před 8 měsíci

      @@anuragjain37 🤣🤣 many hymps in your oldest Rig Veda is written by a tamil post Agastya 💪💪

    • @anuragjain37
      @anuragjain37 Před 8 měsíci +9

      @@vanisridhar5509 you guys have so much hate.. Anyways I don't wanna argue with you Tamils as you all are my brothers.. And Rsi Agastya ki Jaya 🙏😊

  • @ruciokas
    @ruciokas Před 6 měsíci +2

    Wow! Thank you, it was very interesting...

  • @absurdoom3948
    @absurdoom3948 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Great episode Bahador. Balto-Slavic is I believe the closest link to Sanskrit. Comparing Serbian or Croatian with Sanskrit would be very interesting video.

  • @voaniopalm3209
    @voaniopalm3209 Před 8 měsíci +157

    As an indonesian I can also understand many words here, thank to our history. It's fascinating that Sanskrit to Indonesian, Javanese, Balinese and any other indonesian local languages is like Latin to western European languages. Yet it still alive today.
    Btw, I just found out that "dina" means "day" in Sanskrit as well as in Javanese, never thought about it!

    • @questionnowho
      @questionnowho Před 8 měsíci +19

      It's normal because of the hindu influence once HINDUISM was a major religion in Asia .Even the first scripture in China named diamond sutras translated from Sanskrit.Sanskrit is one of the oldest language so it's common that many languages have influence of Sanskrit

    • @sahashranshubarik9204
      @sahashranshubarik9204 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Sanskrit - dina, divasa means day in english

    • @hrbaskar
      @hrbaskar Před 8 měsíci +1

      These all are not sanskrit. They are prakrit which is very old than sanskrit. Sanskrit is mixed language of prakrit tamil and European languages. Sanskrit is not pure language

    • @questionnowho
      @questionnowho Před 8 měsíci +13

      @@hrbaskar prakit is older than Sanskrit kudos to you knowledge who teach you this history?

    • @questionnowho
      @questionnowho Před 8 měsíci

      @@sahashranshubarik9204 look the hrbaskar comment 🤣🤣

  • @AngelTonchev
    @AngelTonchev Před 7 měsíci +203

    I'm a Bulgarian. When I started learning Indology in uni, we studied Hindi from the get go and Sanskrit from the second year. But the Hindi professor/teacher, in the first Hindi class, showed us a text in the Latin alphabet of a short text in Sanskrit. The text was specifically written so that we could understand basically all of it, without knowing the language. It was quite magical and although I dropped out after 2nd year, this remained with me and it's been like a hobby to find more and more connections not only between Sanskrit and Bulgarian, but with many other languages. I mean.. I started understanding a bit of Romani just like that, haha!
    Quite fascinating to have a glimpse to the closeness to Lithuanian as well! Great video, will be digging up more on this matter for sure!

    • @goelnuma6527
      @goelnuma6527 Před 6 měsíci +5

      A relative went to study in Bulgaria from India in the 1980s, he picked up the language in a year the structure was very similar to Sanskrit

    • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
      @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv Před 6 měsíci +1

      Cool

    • @Anuclano
      @Anuclano Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@goelnuma6527 Bulgarian has lost all of its Indo-European structure. Only vocabulary remains.

    • @nikolaykolev1438
      @nikolaykolev1438 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@AnuclanoSanskrit started from the Balkans-Aria/bright,radiant/Perke/stone,roky/.
      Dionysu's campaign 6000 years ago to conquer India.
      In the march participated:Satri,Sinti,Siki,Brigi,Kikoni,Blagii/know as Thracians/.
      Today Bulgarian Language has developed from Sanskrit with 8 cases to analytical,no cases/two remaining,in the process of dropping aut/.
      In order for a maturity to fall,it is necessary to accumulate verb tenses.To replace them.
      This happens slowly,from 1000 to 2000 years,for a single maturity.
      So,for 7-8 maturities it took 7-8000 years.
      In Ingia,Sanskrit was brought from outside and adopted.
      That's why he canned and mixed,with lokal Languages.
      Therefore it does not develop.
      Because it is acquired,not natural.
      Most European Languages are derived from it..Bulgarian is the world's oldest analytical Language.

    • @NisCho754
      @NisCho754 Před 5 měsíci +3

      I never knew we had similar words (I speak Bengali btw) like for example dever/devar/debor/dewor= husband’s brother (younger brother to be specific in Bengali)

  • @harsh.d.rajput
    @harsh.d.rajput Před 6 měsíci +4

    Thats really fascinating 👏

  • @letMeSayThatInIrish
    @letMeSayThatInIrish Před 6 dny

    This was fantastic. I had no idea there were so many similarities between these two languages.

  • @prasasti7141
    @prasasti7141 Před 8 měsíci +80

    as indonesian i can understand agni, madhu, vayu, deva, dina

    • @Pain53924
      @Pain53924 Před 8 měsíci +7

      Even your name is a sankrit word "Prashasti" which means in praise of. Fellow indians would know it from the word "prashansa"

    • @prasasti7141
      @prasasti7141 Před 8 měsíci

      @@Pain53924 prasasti = inscription in indonesian

    • @_UCS_SwapnilSahaiSrivastav
      @_UCS_SwapnilSahaiSrivastav Před 8 měsíci

      As an indian I can understand meaning of your name since prashasti is also a Sanskrit word

    • @Pain53924
      @Pain53924 Před 8 měsíci

      @@_UCS_SwapnilSahaiSrivastav mera comment kyo copy kar rahe ho

    • @ashblackhawk
      @ashblackhawk Před 8 měsíci +2

      Indonesia was ancient Vedic land, peoples names still are from that era and Bali still has culture too. It has just changed its religion and culture is still similar to India.

  • @whatapp4797
    @whatapp4797 Před 8 měsíci +158

    It's insane. The similarities go from India to Spain and from Iceland to Russia. It would be interesting to know where it all started and how it spread.

    • @arjungulliya2270
      @arjungulliya2270 Před 8 měsíci +52

      Read about the battle of ten kings....it's in the aftermath of that battle that losing tribes moved northwards...some travelled north east to modern day Mongolia & Russia, others travelled north west towards modern day Europe & some settled near Iranian region...that's why all these regions have similar language & ancient gods of all these regions are similar.
      However, many European supremacists don't want to accept that and thus came up with Aryan invasion theory(which says that civilization in Indian subcontinent began after Aryans from Europe invaded it)....which gets debunked when you look at recent findings of the existence of ancient river sarasvati (found to exist thousands years earlier than so called Aryan invasion) which finds mention in ancient Sanskrit text Rigveda.

    • @mattdamon4544
      @mattdamon4544 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Aryans

    • @NirvanaMarketing-do8uv
      @NirvanaMarketing-do8uv Před 8 měsíci +16

      Sanatana dharma

    • @liveforever141
      @liveforever141 Před 8 měsíci +16

      Research Yamnaya peoples. Somewhere in the past, few thousands of years ago, part of them went West and later became Europeans we know today, another part went East, then South, and became ruling class of India. Ruling class spoke Sanskrit. Sanskrit and all Indo-European languages in Europe are sister languages.

    • @curiouskid1547
      @curiouskid1547 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Somewhere between iran and India, probably Afghanistan.

  • @khushigupta6238
    @khushigupta6238 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Wow I had only heard that Lithuanian is very similar to sanskrit. Never realised it is so much alike..

  • @BongDonky
    @BongDonky Před 3 měsíci

    Amazing that the connection is this evident. Cheers

  • @Notsurprising
    @Notsurprising Před 8 měsíci +111

    Hi, Maldivian here! here are some similarities witrh Maldivian language:
    Sanskrit - Lithuainian - Dhivehi - English
    Dhuma - Dumas - Dhun - Smoke
    Svapna- Sapnas - Huvafen - Dream (Suvapen) I asume is older word replace S for H and P for F Commonly occurs ( eg;- Soma - Homa -Moon/ Fani - Pani- water )
    Danta - Dantis - Dhathe - Teeth
    ka - Kas - Kaa/ Kaake - who
    Vira - Vyras - Veeru - Man (Storng man in Dhivehi)
    Vayu - Vejas - Vai - Wind
    Deva - Dievas - Dheyvathaa - God
    Tava - Tavo - Thage - your
    Dina - Diena - Dhuwas - Day
    Thanks Bahador for another fantastic Video!

    • @Notsurprising
      @Notsurprising Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@SouthAsianDassHunter Yes we speak this language as an official language of Maldives and even invented our own script for this language.

    • @infinite5795
      @infinite5795 Před 8 měsíci +3

      ​@@Notsurprisingyou don't even use the actual script for your own language, Dives Akuru is long dead.

    • @varoonnone7159
      @varoonnone7159 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@Notsurprising
      Isn't your script just a modified version of nastaliq ?

    • @Notsurprising
      @Notsurprising Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@infinite5795 ދެން އެހެންމައި ކޭކޮވް؟
      The original script was Brahmi to Grantha. It eventually evolved to Adoption of Pali - Devanagari- Eveylaa Akuru - Dives Akuru- Thaana Akuru.
      So what do you mean “Actual Script” ?
      Also it doesn’t matter when it comes to spoken language, that stays the same.

    • @Notsurprising
      @Notsurprising Před 8 měsíci +5

      @@SouthAsianDassHunter Genetic Studies suggest we are 50-60% Indian, mostly equal parts North Indian and South Indian. So we are not “Sanskritized” we are a Hybrid 😄

  • @GinGerani
    @GinGerani Před 8 měsíci +465

    I am italian and I have classical studies of latin and greek: I have recognized several words and radicals.
    Otherwise we are all indoeuropean :)
    I deeply love this channel!

    • @chicawhappa
      @chicawhappa Před 8 měsíci +5

      ​@@Cr00kedKnightIt's pretty much my conclusion of late, the evidence is hard to ignore.

    • @ayushmankrishna4600
      @ayushmankrishna4600 Před 8 měsíci +7

      Indo aryan first then indo european we are different now. We are not what we used to be once during pie stage so stop calling all as one people. We are so different that genetic langauges culture everything moved so apart. Say we have a connection. Dont put us all in one group.

    • @GinGerani
      @GinGerani Před 8 měsíci +11

      @@ayushmankrishna4600 Yes indo-arian is right but the furthest is indo-european: we all have connection. And we all are in the same macro group, then there are the subgroups like indo aryan, germanic, latin et cetera.

    • @GinGerani
      @GinGerani Před 8 měsíci

      @@Cr00kedKnight sorry but I did not understand what do you mean: would you please write shorter and paratactic sentences?

    • @_UCS_SwapnilSahaiSrivastav
      @_UCS_SwapnilSahaiSrivastav Před 8 měsíci +3

      ​@@GinGeranihello fellow indo-Europeans brother.
      May the gods bless us all.

  • @davidstenow5055
    @davidstenow5055 Před 3 měsíci +3

    This is so cool! I had no idea Sanskrit and Lithuanian were similar

  • @Jeroen4
    @Jeroen4 Před měsícem +6

    I smiled a lot watching this video. Very cool

  • @watchmakerful
    @watchmakerful Před 8 měsíci +479

    There are similarities to Russian as well.
    Dūmas = дым (dym), "smoke".
    Sapnas ~ сон (son), "sleep".
    Ugnis = огонь (ogoň), "fire".
    Medus = мёд (m'od), "honey".
    Tavo ~ твой (tvoj), "your".
    Diena = день (deň), "day".

    • @rolandasb7502
      @rolandasb7502 Před 8 měsíci +32

      yes, balto slavic languages possibly were of the same language branch and later split from each other

    • @5YasaYana
      @5YasaYana Před 8 měsíci +7

      soa/soyan means sleep in Prakritized languages 😂

    • @rituparna6133
      @rituparna6133 Před 8 měsíci +20

      In Bengali also, ugnis is aagun.

    • @5YasaYana
      @5YasaYana Před 8 měsíci +27

      @@rituparna6133 Because all of them are Indo-European languages

    • @watchmakerful
      @watchmakerful Před 8 měsíci +26

      @@rituparna6133 And in Latin it's "ignis", from which (possibly via French) our "ignition".

  • @e.8127
    @e.8127 Před 8 měsíci +266

    Labai malonus akiai ir ausiai interviu. Intelektualūs ir išauklėti pašnekovai. Very pleasant conversation. Thank you!

    • @Kae_Editss
      @Kae_Editss Před 7 měsíci +4

      Tikra tiesa 👍

    • @audriusjasiunas1649
      @audriusjasiunas1649 Před 7 měsíci +5

      Malonu žiūrėti

    • @cyrillpresler3442
      @cyrillpresler3442 Před 6 měsíci +1

      You do pronounce R in ir, right? It is not like Russian (I) or French(et) [i] ?

    • @e.8127
      @e.8127 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@cyrillpresler3442 not true. In lithuanian we pronounce "R" in the word "ir" very clearly :)

    • @Simonas.G
      @Simonas.G Před 6 měsíci

      @@cyrillpresler3442 Right, we pronounce r. What you see is what you get :)

  • @cronoscoin417
    @cronoscoin417 Před 7 dny +1

    These are great videos, interesting and educational

  • @newsxreactions
    @newsxreactions Před 3 měsíci

    Guys. You are conducting amazing sessions on Lithuanian & Sanskrit similarity. Amazed to know many Lithuanian words are quite similar to Sanskrit and i recalled my school days where teachers taught Sanskrit from 6 to 12th Standard in India(Gujarat).
    Please, arrange such sessions more.

  • @PI0TYCH
    @PI0TYCH Před 6 měsíci +169

    As a Polish speaker I also guessed several Sanskrit words, though as I see Lithuanian and Sanskrit have more in common. BTW, Lithuanian and Polish also have some common vocabulary core. For example: dina (sanskr.), diena (lit), dzień (pol); agni (sanskr.), ugnis (lit), ogień (pl-in nominative case, but "ognia" which is more similar - in genetiv case); I also guessed danta, but this because of knowing a bit French. Same with deva/dievas. I should guess also tava (yours) in Polish "twój" (masculin), twoje (neutral gen, and plural), twoja/twa (feminin- two variations of the same word). That's amazing.

    • @susantagiri4252
      @susantagiri4252 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Morality we are one but we divided .
      So our #Veda said
      Basudev kutumbakam 🙏

    • @fernandoitri1045
      @fernandoitri1045 Před 4 měsíci +6

      Portuguese here: dia (day) ignição (ignition), dente (tooth) divino (from devas)

    • @farukhsheikh5790
      @farukhsheikh5790 Před 4 měsíci +5

      Can you guess these--
      Matre, pitre, bhatre, asva.

    • @PI0TYCH
      @PI0TYCH Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@farukhsheikh5790 matre=mother? (as mater in latin or mać, macierz in ancient-Polish and similar in Russian), pitre=father? (as pater in latin), bhatre =brother? (as in English or "brat" in as far I know all Slavic languages; letter "h" after "b" changed into "r" and letter "e" after letter "t" had been added in other languages (also "braterstwo"-Polish, "brotherhood" - English, where the "r" after "t" is present); asva - I have no guess. Using the context of the whole question I could unclearly guess that it asva means sister, but the context is the only my clue; the only core is letter "s" and "a" at the end which can mean a female gender.

    • @farukhsheikh5790
      @farukhsheikh5790 Před 4 měsíci +5

      @@PI0TYCH The first three are correct. It means Mother, Father and Brother in Sanskrit. Asva means horse. I assumed common words like these might be similar in the Indo-European languages, just like Deva for god, or agni, vayu and varun for fire, Wind and water.

  • @96KurTi
    @96KurTi Před 8 měsíci +191

    Love Lithuanian language:) it seems to me most beautiful language in Europe :)

    • @FrederikJolle
      @FrederikJolle Před 6 měsíci +1

      then you haven't heard danish

    • @vyktorzhuravlev8304
      @vyktorzhuravlev8304 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Try slavic -celtics, especially Irish. Preferly west and south dialects.

    • @kodilodinoza
      @kodilodinoza Před 6 měsíci +3

      Thank you. gera girdėti tokį gražų įvertinimą

    • @limel710
      @limel710 Před 6 měsíci

      Thank you for such kind words. It’s nice to know that others can appreciate its beauty too ❤

  • @AK-xi1ng
    @AK-xi1ng Před 5 měsíci +1

    Amazing video, never knew about sp many similarities between two languages.

  • @evwatch
    @evwatch Před 2 měsíci +1

    This was so intriguing! Never knew sanskrit and lithuanian were so similar to each other!

  • @bringbacktheolddislike305
    @bringbacktheolddislike305 Před 7 měsíci +134

    I speak Russian and I could understand a lot of those words... Languages are really amazing

    • @korana6308
      @korana6308 Před 7 měsíci

      Yep.Almost all words are the same.

    • @justme2012lena
      @justme2012lena Před 6 měsíci +19

      Me too. Old Russian language is close to Sanskrit -counting numbers, for example and many more

    • @user-hb2ky3by7p
      @user-hb2ky3by7p Před 5 měsíci +2

      Все верно часть славян ( или их предков) мигрировала в индию вот и связь

    • @rebbekathatcher9792
      @rebbekathatcher9792 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@user-hb2ky3by7p о проматеринском языке не слышали видимо.

    • @user-hb2ky3by7p
      @user-hb2ky3by7p Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@rebbekathatcher9792 Материнский нет не слышал, скорее отцовский. Пришедшие в Индию были восновном мужчинами. Это носители гаплогруппы r1a, общий предок на русской равнине с русскими был примерно 4000-4500 т лет назад

  • @AtoZ-fk8rw
    @AtoZ-fk8rw Před 8 měsíci +126

    Very interesting how Lithuanian kept the language so preserved, so it's now probably the closest language to the Proto-Indo-European alongside Latvian compared to other European languages. That's probably why these two languages have still some common words with Sanskrit

    • @ALOK-pe5fp
      @ALOK-pe5fp Před 7 měsíci +8

      Sanskrit is closest because we Brahmins upper caste people in India have perfect course for Brahmin kids for exact chanting of 5000+ year old rig veda (oldest indo european text) , we follow proper Aryan custom even marriage in our community, we say india as aryavart in sanskrit , but less than 5 percentage are Brahmins so only few people know but perfectly preserved.

    • @IndoManiac90
      @IndoManiac90 Před 7 měsíci +3

      Sanskrit is probably closer to proto-indo-european than Lithuanian is

    • @templaryzta5927
      @templaryzta5927 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Lithuanian has a lot of borrowings from Polish

    • @goelnuma6527
      @goelnuma6527 Před 6 měsíci

      Sanskrit is not the language of the Brahmins originally @@ALOK-pe5fp

    • @Anuclano
      @Anuclano Před 6 měsíci +4

      Bad thing is, Lithuanian was first rcorded only lately. If it was recorded when Sanskrit was...

  • @anilkumarmalikneil4572
    @anilkumarmalikneil4572 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Thank u for bringing this kind of knowledgeble contents.❤

  • @user-mi5xs9qt4b
    @user-mi5xs9qt4b Před 6 měsíci +13

    I understand that the words were specially selected so that they had a common root for both languages. And the most interesting thing is that the Polish language /Slavic/, apart from being an Indo-European language, has little in common with the Lithuanian language /Baltic/ - but many of these words also sound similar in Polish. At the beginning, almost all subsequent words had a clear similarity to Polish words.
    In order:
    1. dhuma - d(h)ym
    2. svapna - (małe podobieństwo) spać, sen
    3. agni - ogien
    4. danta - dentysta
    5. ka - kto
    6. madhu - miod
    7. vayu - vyeaye (wjeje)
    We also have numerals similar to Sanskrit:
    1 (ekam) yeden
    2 (dve) dva (dwa)
    3 (treeni) tshee (trzy)
    4 (chatvaari) chtaree (cztery)
    5 (pancha) pyench (pięć)
    6 (shat) sheshch (sześć)6

    • @OrcCrew
      @OrcCrew Před 4 dny

      Без этого допущения, видео получилось бы не интересным. Например польский и русский довольно прозрачны друг для друга. Базовая часть будет практически идентична, но зачастую, поляку понять, о чем идет речь в разговоре на русском - практически невозможно, если нет опыта (как и наоборот, русскому сложно понять устный польский). При этом дай им транскрипцию и немного времени на изучение текста, то они разберут добрые 90%, за исключением некоторых слов, которые скорее всего удастся восстановить по контексту. Правда это сработает далеко не всегда, чем больше текст оперирует базовыми понятиями, тем проще. Сложный тест, изобилующих разными терминами, которые возникали в языках независимо друг от друга, понять совсем сложно будет. Если решите делать такой эксперимент, это конечно стоит учесть :)

  • @ashna08
    @ashna08 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Ok. I never thought I'd watch this kinda video without speeding!! That's new to me too. It's interesting.

  • @greta116
    @greta116 Před 8 měsíci +227

    Incredibly nice video, incredible simmilarities and incredibly nice participants and representors of both languages! I feel proud to be lithuanian and speak our language 🥰 Warmest greetings to everyone from Lithuania!🧡🧡🧡

    • @theinkwellpod
      @theinkwellpod Před 8 měsíci +15

      Thanks Greta! I'm glad that you enjoyed our conversation! 🤗

    • @greta116
      @greta116 Před 8 měsíci +3

      ​@@theinkwellpod🧡🧡🧡

    • @suyashneelambugg
      @suyashneelambugg Před 8 měsíci +6

      Labas Geras Greta! From an Indian in the UK who has dated two Lithuanians in life. Warmest people I know. 😊
      But I also felt a lot of western inclination owing to the past occupation by Russia. This also meant that the present generation is typically identifying as closer to Anglo-Saxons than as anything else and may also have unfavourable views of the east.

    • @theinkwellpod
      @theinkwellpod Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@suyashneelambugg Hi! The young and the old might have unfavourable views about Russia rather than the East itself, as the East encompasses many countries.

    • @ArniPara
      @ArniPara Před 8 měsíci +1

      Thank you, Greta! :) And right back at you!

  • @shaan1166
    @shaan1166 Před 8 měsíci +23

    I was in Mariampoles formerly Kapsukas for 3 months and i consider that Lithuanians are the finest people in Europe

  • @reluctanttechnologist3766
    @reluctanttechnologist3766 Před měsícem +3

    This is both astounding and relaxing. I have language envy.

  • @upuldhanushkagajanayake2719
    @upuldhanushkagajanayake2719 Před 5 měsíci +1

    What wonderful and useful this is the way people should use social media ❤❤❤

  • @informatikos-pamokos
    @informatikos-pamokos Před 7 měsíci +171

    Oh wow, as a Lithuanian, this was wonderful to watch! History of languages is an amazing thing!

  • @Basheez
    @Basheez Před 8 měsíci +46

    I can see similarities between Sanskrit and Polish and Latin as well (and to some degree Swedish and English).

    • @ObsidianSpearhead
      @ObsidianSpearhead Před 8 měsíci

      Like what

    • @sakakaka4064
      @sakakaka4064 Před 8 měsíci

      @@ObsidianSpearhead Basically all the words from the video: for example, smoke in Polish is "dym", day is "dzień", to live is "żyć". Of course, there's much more.

    • @pikachue602
      @pikachue602 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Trident (eng) in Sanskrit tridanta ie three teeth

    • @alani3992
      @alani3992 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Yes its similar, as the Hindi word for day is "din", & I know for good-day you say Dobre "Dien" in Czech or Slovak,
      & "Dzien" Dobre in Polish.
      And of course the English "Day" would be related.

    • @yellostallion
      @yellostallion Před 8 měsíci +1

      Pancha and Penta both mean five. Tri means three. And many more.....

  • @rudro3958
    @rudro3958 Před 5 měsíci +3

    In Bengali,
    Dhoya(ধোঁয়া) = Smoke
    Shopno (স্বপ্ন) = Dream
    Ogni (অগ্নি) = Fire
    Donto (দন্ত) = Teeth
    Ke(কে)= Who
    Bir(বীর) =Brave
    Modhu(= Honey
    Bayu(বায়ু)= Wind
    Deb(দেব) = God
    Dheu(ঢেউ) = Wave
    Tomar (তোমার)= Your
    Din(দিন) = Day
    Jibonto(জীবন্ত)= Alive

  • @RealAmericanSicko
    @RealAmericanSicko Před 24 dny +4

    Wow very interesting. And she is quite clever! Thanks to both

  • @hilatchikkakul8980
    @hilatchikkakul8980 Před 8 měsíci +120

    As a Thai, I can recognize most of the words. Thai borrows a lot of Sanskrit vocabularies. However, most of them are not used in everyday lives. They are considered "high" words used in religions, poems, state official documents. Some words are used in everyday life such as Vayu (Payu in Thai pronunciation) which means storm (not just wind as in Sanskrit). It's meaning shift.

    • @Vk-sk7nm
      @Vk-sk7nm Před 8 měsíci +18

      Same. In india Sanskrit words are also considered ' High' and used in religious activities and official documents.

    • @AsitdyaDsr
      @AsitdyaDsr Před 8 měsíci +3

      Nice. Thai language is based on Sanskrit or any other similar one like chines etc ?

    • @Heywjebbs
      @Heywjebbs Před 8 měsíci +11

      Same here in many South Indian languages, I’m a native Telugu speaker and most of our poetic words come from Sanskrit. Guess what , even vayu means air in our poems😂

    • @BG-hz8fh
      @BG-hz8fh Před 8 měsíci +1

      Finaly this will debunk the Aryan invasion theory and establish that it was Indians who moved out of india and spread to other parts of the world because German, French, English did not create Sanskrit but Sanskrit ended up as these languages as they rooted out from it mostly out of mispronunciation. And the land where the orginal language exists even today is India while the so called Aryan invasion theorists brag about it coming into India thousands of years back never find it as intact as it is India despite having no invasions in their land.

    • @hilatchikkakul8980
      @hilatchikkakul8980 Před 8 měsíci +5

      @@AsitdyaDsr Thai belongs to Kra-Dai language family. It's based on neither Chinese nor Sanskrit. However, Thai ancestors contacted so closely with Chinese that they borrowed a lot of words and some phonetic features from ancient Chinese. This is due to the fact that Tai speaking people homeland are in southern area of today's China. Therefore, their language were influenced by Chinese both geographically and authoritatively.
      Later when some groups of Tai people migrated down to today's Thailand, they associated with Mon-Khmer people who had already absorbed Indian culture, including Sanskrit and Pali languages mostly via Buddhism and Hinduism religions.
      In addition, there were Indian merchants and priests in the area at the time. So Thai heavily received Sanskrit and Pali words both directly via Indian and indirectly via Mon-Khmer peoples.

  • @KASPARFLUECK
    @KASPARFLUECK Před 8 měsíci +63

    As a swiss i have to say that you all deserve a slice of cheese for this awesome work!

  • @jmudikun
    @jmudikun Před 5 měsíci +3

    That was so interesting ❤