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| ewomahony Diglot Groupie England Joined 5581 days ago 91 posts - 115 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, French, Afrikaans | Message 1 of 4 25 June 2010 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Whilst investigating the Lithuanian language, I came across a few verb tables:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_grammar#The_Present_ Tense When I looked at the verb tables, I noticed a striking similarity between the Lithuanian conjugations and the Romance conjugations (especially Italian) in the present, past and past iterative tenses. I was wondering whether this is simply a coincidence, or is there a reason for the similarity? Is this similarity found in the other Baltic languages’ conjugations? It was just so unexpected to find such a similarity between a Baltic language and the Romance languages! Thanks, Ed 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5452 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 4 25 June 2010 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
They are Indo-European languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ewomahony Diglot Groupie England Joined 5581 days ago 91 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, French, Afrikaans | Message 3 of 4 25 June 2010 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
Indeed, but so are languages like Urdu and Russian, but the conjugations aren't quite as similar. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5272 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 4 of 4 26 June 2010 at 12:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Lithuanian is the most conservative living IE language, so its similarities with Latin and Sanskrit are not entirely
surprising. However, I've never heard of an Italo-Baltic subgrouping before. The usual subgroups are: Indo-Iranian Greco-Indo-Aryan Greco-Armenian Italo-Celtic Balto-Slavic In fact, the Balto-Slavic subgrouping is the most strongly attested one within IE. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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