Similarities Between Sanskrit and Lithuanian
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.
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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.
I am an Indian and understood almost all the Lithuanian words! The similarity is striking! However, the sentences were difficult.
It's because trough time our pronunciation changed a lot here is an example of how people talks in villages up to this day kzhead.info/sun/hpaLc7WMfYpsiI0/bejne.html&ab_channel=Balticfolk
congrats to India
I guess you learned Sanskrit. As far as I know, Hindi is not as similar to Lithuanian as Sanskrit.
@@user-xn2zd7bl1uHindi is basically Prakrit+Sanskrit, Prakrit came out of Sanskrit.
@@user-xn2zd7bl1uthose who know Hindi can understand Sanskrit too as Hindi is derived from Sanskrit.
As Latvian it was very interesting, because Lietuva is our bralukai and Sanskrit sounded similar to Latvian as well.
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)
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
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.
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!
@@AAKASHH367 yes you're right 👍🏻
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.
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
@@evdalzarrinolbistanAryans 🗿
@@Chaprii_hu Aryans are the birth of civilization
@@Aceliious where are you from I am from india
@@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
This is fascinating. I'm studying Sanskrit, so could see for myself how many of the Lithuanian words make sense.
Very interesting! Greetings from Lithuania 🇱🇹♥️🇮🇳
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@@KESHAVKUMAR-fk8ff❤ from India 🇮🇳
Labas. Married to a Lithuanian. Fascinating history, culture, language, food. Love it.
Love from 🇮🇳
Greetings from India🙏
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 .
Because of Sanskrit is base, sanskrit is world's oldest language at least few lacs year Same as Sanatan Hindu Dharm 🚩 🔱 🕉
"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
@@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?
@@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
@@1hindu-sthaani558civilizations ain't even that old my guy
this is the most interesting connection between languages, I'm so fascinated by this. Thank you so much for making this video!
An yes, it was a pleasure to see the participants. So calm, very intelligent and respectful. Thank you for the video!
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!
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 😊
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
Sanskrit is mother of all labguage
Authors forgot that we have samogitian lithuanian dialect that sometimes is even more similar.
@@NeerajKumar-is2ohno😂
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)
I used to enjoy Gudang Garam :)
Just a simple fact. The word bahasa in bahasa Indonesia itself means language. So it means the Indonesian language.😂
Bahasa is also from Sanskrit word for language "Bhaasha" भाषा
@@proudtobeaninfidelkafirand7471 , yes, I too used to enjoy Gudang Garam , spicy cigarette. 😂
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.
Wonderful video. Thanks for the effort. Congratulations to the team behind. ❤❤❤
Wonderful similarities between Lithuanian and Sanskrit 😊
Lithuanian needs to be preserved and spread all around at all cost. What a fascinating language that is!
It was the last European country to be christianised in 1387
Love it: I listened to the lituanian sutartines :D
The same for LATVIAN!
@@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!!!
@@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
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!
Greetings from Lithuania!!! ;)
because we were one nation/tribe 15-20 000 years ago :)
@@rolandas77👍👍👍😂😂😂
OhmyGaadoheDuggaDugga.
Oh yes! For example: In Bengali you say "Mishti sopno" And in Lithuanian we say "Saldžių sapnų" :)
I’m an Italian speaker and I studied Latin and Greek in grammar school. I could guess all the words through Latin, except banga. I had a Latin teacher in high school who was able to have a basic conversation with her Indian neighbour (the wife of a diplomat, who’d studied Sanskrit) with the two using their respective ancient languages (my teacher was very old and she didn’t speak English). Dhuma/dumas > fumus (dh > f) Svapna/sapnas > somnium (pn > mn) Agní/ugnis > ignis Danta/dantis > dens/dentis Ká/kas > qui/quis Vīrá/vyras > vir Mádhu/medis > mel/melis. (Dh > L) Devá/dievas > deus Vāyú/vėjas > ve-ntus Sána/senas > senex Tava/tavo > tuus/tua/tuum Dína/diena > dies I couldn’t find a direct equivalent for jīvati/gyventi, but I suspect it’s connected to the stem gen- that means ‘being born’ and that you find in Latin words like ‘genus’ or ‘gens/gentis’.
Davvero impressionante.
Had requested this a while back thank you so much @bahador❤
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 🤯
Serbian Is also simular to both languagea , And we Are better then Lithuanians in basketball
Love that argumentation xD
@@urosmarkovic9193All Slavic languages in including Russian too
@@urosmarkovic9193serbian play football ⚽ and of course the tennis player 🐐
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 😂
Latvian is like a non identical twin of Lithuanian so this video gives me shivers. Beautiful similarities.
Are there any similar words you have to what the girl is saying in Sanskrit?
@@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.
this has been an excellent competition. thank you for allowing me the chance of comparison! :D you are both so skilled!!!
Such INTELLIGENT speakers!! You are all the BEST!! Keep up your presentations!! The world needs you.
Thanks a bunch! I'm glad that you enjoyed our talk. Much love from Lithuania. :)
Thank you so much for your kind words :)
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
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.
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!
@@prstcufhwhere did you hear someone having conversations in Sanskrit that is very rare
@@username_PK in India a couple of years ago.
@@username_PK sanskrit mantras are commonly recited everywhere
@@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
Lithuanian has actually been theorized to be the least changed Indo-European language from the original, so it makes sense but still very surprising.
Add Latvian
@@ppn194 Maybe Latvian even 'purer' in native IE terminology. Sanskrit itself has Dravidian Influence events from earliest times.
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.
@@FlankCobrathat does not make sense given archaeological and scholarly research
@@FlankCobrathat makes absolutely zero sense
It was very informative. I thank all three of you very much.
Che bella idea hai avuto con il tuo canale. È molto interessante. Graziee 🙏💜💡
I never imagined this connection between Sanskrit and Lithuanian…. It was a delightful episode 🙂
Being both indo-european and lithuanian being quite conservative make it less surprising tho
Sanskrit is the mother of all eurashian languages
@@prafful_sahu wrong. Sanskrit and European languages are like cousins, but not descendants of one another.
@@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.
@@liveforever141Lithuanian, Latvian and Sanskrit are temporaries. They existed at the same time back in the day.
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
It's the basics of linguistics - if you're interested, learn it. It's a fascinating science!
Try taking a Latin class! Really helps you see language differently
Degree hogi uske pass, as simple as that
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.
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.
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
I am amazed! Thank you for this video.
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 👍
Absolutely! Latvian-Lithuanian and Sanskrit have incredible closeness. We probably evolved from same ancestors
c’mon! Latvian and Lithuanian tribes were never united (they had the wars instead).
@@JekabaKapnesthat's just a sibling's jealoysity.
@@JekabaKapnesyou are talking about close history..they are talking about ancestry ,common common sense!
They obviously came from the same ancestors. And probably very recent- say 1500-1600 years ago
❤from Australia 🇦🇺- father was Lithuanian and spoke 10 languages!
O tu? Ar kalbi lietuviškai?
@@dainiussla1649tu is you in hindi , our national language in India
Thank you, I found this very interesting and it helps to enlarge one's views of other cultures.
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).
Thank you Arnika! As always, it was a pleasure to have you be a part of it:)
Sūnus ( Soonus) in Lithuanian🤓
As a Sanskrit speaker, you did a great job. Hope you represent Sanskrit in future as well.
I guess many languages have been evolved from Sanskrit
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!
I visited Lithuania, very nice ancient nation .salute from India.
congrats to India
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 !!!
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.
@@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
@@juodagalvesniegena714 prasiplauk galva sudo gabale tu krw
Bahador, this was an amazing video!
This is so cool ! Thnak you for this video
As a Latvian speaker I also understood surprisingly lot from both of the languages
ancient brothers.
@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
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.
@@seethabedhikormastklgram Nobody is interested in your stupid theology. Dont poke yr DMK theory here.
@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
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
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.
Absolutely facinating, thank you
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! 🇱🇰 ! 🙏 !
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.
@@chandra_hasno. The Sanskrit speakers went from India to other countries. There are migratory evidences.
Fuk Tamil
@@chandra_hasno even European languages aren't native to Europe like Sanskrit, they came from the Caucasus mountains.
@@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.
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 ;)
There's more! It was a great collaboration, thanks Bahador and Arnika!
It’s the same for Basque and Quechua
@@AmicusAdastraquechua and basque? I don’t believe that. But that would be quite a revelation if true
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😂
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!
This is amazing!!!👏👏👏
Absolutely great. Perfectly interesting.
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...).
We are all indoeuropeans
@@Oberschutzee technically I know that, however, it is seldom so clearly manifested
Same about the Russian language
@@sahargubel2396 sorry, but it's how you act, not how you speak, that determines who is a brother and who is not
@@MichalBrat 💯
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 😂
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yes... both have their roots in "aryan migration. "
That's surprising. Is Lithuanian closer to Sanskrit than it is to Latvian?
@@ravindra7791Thanks the great indo European milk drinkers!
@@ravindra7791Yes, because Lithuanians use more old forms of the words.
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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 :)
I'm speaking Lithuanian language and I'm shocked by the similarities
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!
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
Cool
@@goelnuma6527 Bulgarian has lost all of its Indo-European structure. Only vocabulary remains.
@@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.
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)
What an interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
Great episode Bahador. Balto-Slavic is I believe the closest link to Sanskrit. Comparing Serbian or Croatian with Sanskrit would be very interesting video.
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.
agni in Russian is ogon', jivati - zhit' or zhivot is the same root word and it means stomach, diena is of course den'.
@@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.
@@Cr00kedKnight "I find it hard to believe" That's your personal incredulity therefore not a problem with the argument or the evidence.
@@indianboy59 and your obsessive sense of nationalism is not an argument for it
@@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.
Oh wow, as a Lithuanian, this was wonderful to watch! History of languages is an amazing thing!
This video is so interesting! I had no idea Lithuanian is so close to Sanskrit. Thanks and greetings from Italy.
Wow! Thank you, it was very interesting...
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.
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. :)
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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!
@@Cr00kedKnightIt's pretty much my conclusion of late, the evidence is hard to ignore.
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.
@@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.
@@Cr00kedKnight sorry but I did not understand what do you mean: would you please write shorter and paratactic sentences?
@@GinGeranihello fellow indo-Europeans brother. May the gods bless us all.
Thats really fascinating 👏
Very interesting, thank you for sharing.
Labai malonus akiai ir ausiai interviu. Intelektualūs ir išauklėti pašnekovai. Very pleasant conversation. Thank you!
Tikra tiesa 👍
Malonu žiūrėti
You do pronounce R in ir, right? It is not like Russian (I) or French(et) [i] ?
@@cyrillpresler3442 not true. In lithuanian we pronounce "R" in the word "ir" very clearly :)
@@cyrillpresler3442 Right, we pronounce r. What you see is what you get :)
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!
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
Sanskrit - dina, divasa means day in english
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
@@hrbaskar prakit is older than Sanskrit kudos to you knowledge who teach you this history?
@@sahashranshubarik9204 look the hrbaskar comment 🤣🤣
Wonderful project.. & intelligent participants
These are great videos, interesting and educational
Thank u for bringing this kind of knowledgeble contents.❤
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…
As well as to Russian ones
and Polish...
And Bulgarian
especially the tooth, Danti
Еще бы ты не понимал, поскольку славяне были тем кто принес санскрт в индию и европу
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!
@@SouthAsianDassHunter Yes we speak this language as an official language of Maldives and even invented our own script for this language.
@@Notsurprisingyou don't even use the actual script for your own language, Dives Akuru is long dead.
@@Notsurprising Isn't your script just a modified version of nastaliq ?
@@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.
@@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 😄
Amazing that the connection is this evident. Cheers
That's really interesting! We are all connected in many ways.
Omg I don’t even speak proper Sanskrit (though am Indian) and I guessed 70% of the Lithuanian words correctly
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.
@@perambu3441 its still much older than Tamil if you wanna prove something here.
@@anuragjain37 There is no archaeological evidence that suggests Sanskrit Vedas are ancient, it is a false propaganda of Sanskrit scholars and supporters.
@@anuragjain37 🤣🤣 many hymps in your oldest Rig Veda is written by a tamil post Agastya 💪💪
@@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 🙏😊
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".
yes, balto slavic languages possibly were of the same language branch and later split from each other
soa/soyan means sleep in Prakritized languages 😂
In Bengali also, ugnis is aagun.
@@rituparna6133 Because all of them are Indo-European languages
@@rituparna6133 And in Latin it's "ignis", from which (possibly via French) our "ignition".
This is so cool! I had no idea Sanskrit and Lithuanian were similar
This was fantastic. I had no idea there were so many similarities between these two languages.
As a swiss i have to say that you all deserve a slice of cheese for this awesome work!
😂😂
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.
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))
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.
It is.
Change the word indo European to aryans. Arya is the word for these people. Arya means well cultured and well educated aka gentleman.
@@Aniruddha197 Aryas is reserved for the Indo-Iranians. Other IE people are not Aryas.
This was so intriguing! Never knew sanskrit and lithuanian were so similar to each other!
Amazing video, never knew about sp many similarities between two languages.
As a Sinhalese speaker, I understand many words from both Lithuanian and sanskrit
As an Odia speaker , me too ✌
I'm Bangali speaker And I can understand clearly Because Bengali is the closest living language to Sanskrit
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. :)
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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
@@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
So what that it was christianised the last? Do you think its connection to ancient languages automatically became weaker after that?
'Sapnas' was bang on
@@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?
@@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.
Hey Bahador, amazing work! Love to see your videos. Also do Similarities Between Urdu and Lithuanian. Thanks!
What wonderful and useful this is the way people should use social media ❤❤❤
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!🧡🧡🧡
Thanks Greta! I'm glad that you enjoyed our conversation! 🤗
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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.
@@suyashneelambugg Hi! The young and the old might have unfavourable views about Russia rather than the East itself, as the East encompasses many countries.
Thank you, Greta! :) And right back at you!
I loved this video. I don't know Sanskrit, nor I know Lithuanian. I am Latvian and I am quite fluent in all Latvian dialects. Some of the words in Latvian are closer to Sanskrit, than the ones in Lithuanian does. Sometimes opposite. Sometimes in an eastern dialect of Latvian the form is identical to Sanskrit while Latvian and Lithuanian both have quite different words. Please, please make more this kind of videos.
I grew up in the US with a close friend who was Latvian, and he would every now and then say "hey I know that word" when I was talking to my Indian parents.
Absolutely 💯
@@quiet7632 Latvians & Lithuanians are brother folks . Broliukas 😎.
Latvian is more close to sanksrit grammatically, meanwhile Lithuania is closer phonetically.
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.
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
Incredible video. I been looking for such kind of video for literally ages. I learnt Sanskrit in my +2 and I speak Telugu as my mother tongue. Every time I heard Lithuanian spoken it often sounded very close to heart. I cant wait to share this video with my Lithuanian friends. Thanks so much.
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.
Morality we are one but we divided . So our #Veda said Basudev kutumbakam 🙏
Portuguese here: dia (day) ignição (ignition), dente (tooth) divino (from devas)
Can you guess these-- Matre, pitre, bhatre, asva.
@@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.
@@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.
❤️These two teachers!
That was so interesting ❤
as indonesian i can understand agni, madhu, vayu, deva, dina
Even your name is a sankrit word "Prashasti" which means in praise of. Fellow indians would know it from the word "prashansa"
@@Pain53924 prasasti = inscription in indonesian
As an indian I can understand meaning of your name since prashasti is also a Sanskrit word
@@_UCS_SwapnilSahaiSrivastav mera comment kyo copy kar rahe ho
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.
I’m of Indian ancestry, and have studied Sanskrit quite a bit, and I truly enjoy your videos! They’re so informative and interesting! ❤
Ok. I never thought I'd watch this kinda video without speeding!! That's new to me too. It's interesting.
I smiled a lot watching this video. Very cool
Love Lithuanian language:) it seems to me most beautiful language in Europe :)
then you haven't heard danish
Try slavic -celtics, especially Irish. Preferly west and south dialects.
Thank you. gera girdėti tokį gražų įvertinimą
Thank you for such kind words. It’s nice to know that others can appreciate its beauty too ❤
I had heard a lot about Lithuanian being conservative, but I had no idea it was this much!
Nice video content actually 👍
This is both astounding and relaxing. I have language envy.
Enjoyed playing the guessing game. Greetings from Latvia 🇱🇻
As a Latvian I knew/understood each word said in Sanskrit and in Lithuanian, cos they just the same in Latvian, except “dantas”. I also didn’t get the Sanskrit sentence at all, but figured out Lithuanian sentence in a moment. Great job done! :)
We call it zobs or zobi (plural). But I guess it’s borrowed from Slavs, maybe Poles.
@@usr0377-xvtit is dantis in lithuanian, for some reason :)
In Czech /Slovak/ Crroatian- zub, Bulgarian - зъб, Polish - ząb
@@evimbaRussians, of course. Just like 50% of the rest of your "language".
@@xxxyyy8779 hatred combined with zero knowledge just shows the cultural niveau your at.
As a Tamil I appreciate your Indo-European Family even though I'm not part of it.
Same. I am also Tamil. I love both Tamil and Sanskrit (mainly because of Om Sivoham Song).
You are a political tamil. That's why you are not part of it.
@@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.
@@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".
@@Aajkuchtoofanikartehai. 🤣😭🤮
Great conversation