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Posted by nicknamenick, Friday, 24 February 2017 4:20:17 PM
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Dear nicknamenick,
Thank You for confirming what I originally cited on page 6 of this discussion: http://www.lsk.flf.vu.lt/en/department/courses-for-foreigners/lithuanian-language/ Posted by Foxy, Friday, 24 February 2017 6:14:21 PM
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Foxy
All Australians drive Toyotas. Australians drive a number of car makes. The first one is sort of correct but not really. Your quote of "Lithuanian is a very old language. It is the oldest language" shows a wobbly kind of opinion. Posted by nicknamenick, Friday, 24 February 2017 7:24:34 PM
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Dear nicknamenick,
Blame Vilnius University and the linguistic experts. Cheers. Posted by Foxy, Friday, 24 February 2017 8:10:30 PM
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Foxy, heard it all before.
The fact is Australian-born Australians are going to fair better, understand easier, contribute more, *overall* than immigrants could. They must, as this is their native culture. We have a right to exist as a people with our own culture. We cannot continue to do that while ever more millions of alien people intrude upon our social space, however friendly or useful they might be. Do you agree we have a right to exist as a people? This displacement process cannot continue forever if you do. It has to stop sometime, and the sooner the better. It's much easier to prevent societal decay than to undo it. Posted by Shockadelic, Saturday, 25 February 2017 2:19:26 PM
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Dear Shocker,
Ancestors of Australian born Australians were immigrants who built this country and culture to what it is today. To deny that is to deny your own existence and heritage. I'm sure that as our population continues to grow what may seem as alien to you now will eventually one day be part of the mainstream. You many not accept that but our future generations will. We are a nation of immigrants, and this will continue for some time yet. As for losing our culture. I don't agree with that concept. Our culture has been enriched and enhanced by the many who have given so much to this land. Posted by Foxy, Saturday, 25 February 2017 2:39:07 PM
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I chased up your quote and found:
Baltic Sea Philharmonic , facebook.
"Happy birthday, Lithuania!
Lithuania is a great country, because of its very old language. Our language is related to Sanskrit Latin and Ancient Greek. It is the oldest surviving Indo-European language and has preserved the most phonetically and morphological aspects of the proto-language which many other European languages come from.
Visit Lithuania and listen to your ancestors' language.
Giedrė Zarėnaitė, Lithuania – violin."
Your post:
"The fact remains that Lithuanian is the oldest surviving Indo-European language. which has
preserved the most phonetical and morphoplogical aspects of the proto-language which many other European languages come from."
More correctly this quote explains it :
"Lithuanian is extraordinarily conservative, retaining many archaic features otherwise found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit or Ancient Greek. For this reason, it is one of the most important sources in the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European language . The phonology and especially the nominal morphology of Lithuanian is almost certainly the most conservative of any living Indo-European language, although its verbal morphology is less conservative and may be exceeded by the conservatism of Modern Greek verbs, which maintain a number of archaic features lacking in Lithuanian, such as the synthetic aorist and mediopassive forms.
Germanic is the family most related to known PIE (words) and other IE languages. Perhaps Baltic, Hellenic, .. in that order, are the next closely related languages based on the presently known PIE vocabulary. "
References:
"The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European " Chapter 7.