The origin of Lithuanian language

The term Balt was coined in the 19th century by the German linguist Ferdinand Nesselman to name one of the branches of the Indo-European languages spoken on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea .Linguists had already known Indo-European groups such as Germanic, Romance and Slavic; now they discovered another group of Indo-European languages, the Baltic languages. Since the, in linguistics, the term has been applied only in reference to the true Baltic languages: the living Lithuanian and Latvian languages, and dead languages such as Curonian Semigallian Selonian Yotvingian and Galindan.
Lithuanians make up about 80 per cent of the population of Lithuania. This means that three million people (perhaps three and a half million) consider Lithuanian to be their mother tongue. It is spoken by the autochthon Lithuanian populations in some border areas of Poland and Belarus, and by numerous Lithuanian emigres in other countries Te largest emigre groups are to be found in the United States.
People have long been curious to know what makes languages similar, and why people speak different languages in different countries. Linguistic similarity could be evidence of a NATIONAL affinity, or even prove the place closed to God. For instance, during the Renaissance one similarity theory held that Lithuanian was simply a debased Latin, and we know that Latin was the most sacred language in the Catholic world. Genalogical studies of languages took on a scientific approach only in the 19th century. Traditionally, it was based on the history of sounds: that is, it was a history of the spoken language, which people learn in some mysterious way in early childhood without any apparent effort, as if the sounds of the language overwhelmed them like a swollen river.
Latvian is the only living language with sounds and endings similar to those of Lithuanian, but Latvians and...

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