Great video! Context is the most important thing in learning languages, and after watching this I have a much better chance of remember any of these words than if I had read them in a phrasebook.
I think it should be noted that Labas is mainly only used to greet friends or people you know, Laba Diena for people you don't know. Well correct me if i"m wrong, but that's what my girlfriend told me, she is Lithuanian.
Sebastian Matuk I think these are aukštaičių and žemaičių (samogitian), and those are called the "easiest" to understand. There's suvalkiečių, which is called the "most archaic" dialect. And there's dzūkų - if a person has a very strong dzūkų dialect, he sounds horrible. I'm sure that most of lithuanians can agree with me. xd
not true. people just say things like that because, morphologically speaking, it looks very old, but several languages have the same status. Greek, for example, has been around for at least as long, but it, unlike Lithuanian, may be traced back as far as the 16th century BC (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greek)
I'm actually studying historical linguistic and I just discovered that lithuanian seems to be pretty close, in some ways, to indoeuropean. It's so fascinating!! Even if I'm italian, so reeeally far from you, I can recognize some root word similar to greek or latin ones! Beautiful, thank you :)
Great video. Would like some of them to be said more slowly, so a potential tourist could learn them. Also, need to have "where is the bathroom?" And "two Lithuanian beers please."
Baltic people have a unique look that is nice! In the US Lithuanians are low key, unlike say Irish and Italians, except for their unique surnames. I have known lots of Lithuanians since childhood - families with names like Cebonis, Balunas and Stasiulaitis - and though they have been here for generations with some mixing they all have a similar look characterized by beautiful eyes and big smiles.
While your assertions is correct, Baltic and Slavic appear to be slightly more linked together than the other Indo-European language families It stands to reason that knowledge of a more archaic stage of the Slavic languages would help a speaker of a Slavic language more easily understand Lithuanian. Like how learning Old English helps you understand German a tad better.
Four is keturi, which reminds me of the word for four in various Slavic languages as well as its Baltic brother Latvian. Russian: четыре (chetyre) Ukrainian: Чотири (chotyry) Polish: cztery Czech: čtyři Serbo-Croatian: Четири/četiri Latvian: četri Though ultimately it reminds of the Latin quattuor and its Romance language derivatives like cuatro and quatre.
I compared my native language (Serbian) with Lithuanian, and I did find so many similar words... :D I'm pretty sure I will try to learn my cousin language on the north! Greetings to my distant cousins!
Mark Dimitri I was learning Serbian with a friend of mine. He’s native and a language teacher. I want to learn Lithuanian first tho. Coz my girl is Lithuanian. Just met her like a few months back. I noticed straight away that the alphabet and pronunciation of letters is similar. Idk whether to stick with Serbian and do Lithuanian next. Go both at once or focus Lithuanian instead now. Any luck on learning it? Any tips?
You can use "Ir galiausiai Karalienė rado savo Karalių", meaning "And finally the Queen has found her King". You can use "Ir galiausiai Karalienė rado savajį Karalių" as well if you'd like, it sounds fancier. From a native speaker :) Hope this helped!
it still is As myliu tave - this stuff is just current slang etc... just like viso gero is not goodbye but literally means all good or all the best - nobody says su diev anymore for goodbye...
@@starfish5344 My maternal side got out before the totalitarian invasions. The were farmers and “sudiev” was common expression especially in the context of the coming Godless socialist murderous regime. When Lithuanians lose religion, they will become more like the Latvian cousins. Too bad.
Im latvian,but my all my grandparents from both parents side are lithuanians. I feel like more lithuanian not latvian. I know only some words in lithuanian like-Ačiū,Prašom,Labas dienas/vakaras/rytas,esu iš latvijos,aš myliu Lietuvai. :D
sounds like russian, polish, and finnish. great... next to check out is estonian. honestly I'm scared to find out my ancestry because these are harder languages...lucky I'm mostly italian then, easy language ;;
This is unlikely and impossible to say, since proto IE is just a reconstructed language spoken thousands of years ago, so nobody really for 100 % what this language was likely and much less how it sounded... I'm not a linguist though.
lexxypexxy It certainly doesn't sound anywhere close to PIE, but, unlike most of the other languages, it didn't develop a "unique" sound (think English,. French or Polish). So it sounds like most European languages sounded like 3 thousand years ago, just not what Proto-Indo-European sounded like.
lexxypexxy "The Lithuanian language is often said to be the most conservative living Indo-European language, retaining many features of Proto-Indo-European now lost in other Indo-European languages. Among Indo-European languages, 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 despite its late attestation (with the earliest texts dating only to c. 1500 AD). The phonology and especially the nominal morphology of Lithuanian is almost certainly the most conservative of any living Indo-European language" (Zinkevicius 1993, Encyclopædia Britannica).
melituke89 The fact that it's very conservative doesn't really say anything about its sound. Ancient Greek was pretty conservative as well, but it doesn't mean it sounded like either PIE or Lithuanian. To any non-Russian, Lithuanian sounds exactly like Russian, and even to me as a Russian it sounded like some East Slavic dialect the first time I heard it (and it still does). Some Lithuanians get pretty offended when you mention this though.
Sobakus All what I said in my comment was a quote, I didn't make it up. And yes, our pronunciation is different from English, French, or any other language. Our language is Balto-Slavic so no wonder we pronounce words in a similar way as in Russian. But if you try comparing vocabulary, it has nothing to do with Russian. Maybe just some slang phrases that appeared in our language during the last century, as we've been occupied by Soviet Union. But if you ask my opinion, it has something more in common to Greek or Latin, definitely not Russian.
There's a story. When God descended to the Earth, he started to ask something. And everyone wondered what language was that. Some thought it was Russian, for some it sounded Romanian or Turkish, others heard Italian or Irish, but alas, no one spoke the language they were comparing to. Poor God just sat on the ground with a facepalm and turned into a wooden Rūpintojėlis, because he spoke just plain Lithuanian...
***** Nope, it's as old as any other Indo-European language. I hope you understand how stupid the word "old" is in this context. I think you're looking for "conservative".
It is said, that lithuanian language is one of the hardest languages, because our grammar is really complicated. A lot of native lithuanians can't write really well lithuanian though..
Audra žemaitytė I honestly love learning lithuanian, it's not hard to me at all, it's only the congregations that get me confused, but I'm absolutely loving learning lituanian. It's a beautiful, awesome, language.
+Shaun Gordon We only have similar pronunciation. Other than that you would be surprised to know that Russian actually has more words that are similar to English rather than to Lithuanian.
'Closely' related is an ambiguous way to put it. Structurally and phonetically (to a certain degree), resemblances may be there indeed. Having said that, vocabularies are very very different, making mutual intelligibility pretty close to zero. Personally, I do not find it convincing they originate in one common proto-language. The story must have been more complicated than that. But then again, I'm a philosopher by background not a linguist. One more thing, 'Slavic' is a very very broad term. For what do you mean it sounds Slavic? Slavic as in Russian, Polish or Bulgarian? These sound very different.
Lithuania has been run over by Slavs for centuries, so it makes sense it integrates a lot of Slavic sounds. Even when Lithuania was strong it united with the Slavic Poland to create a commonwealth.
+Neamhchodladh because Lithuanian is known to be similar to Latin and romanian in the past was heavily influenced by Latin so thats why there are similarities.
No. Lithuanian sounds like polish more, very little like russian. Obviously, perhaps with the small amount of knowledge of slavic languages, you think only of russian. Pathetic.
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I'm Lithuanian and I think it's absolutely lovely and done nicely!
Great video! Context is the most important thing in learning languages, and after watching this I have a much better chance of remember any of these words than if I had read them in a phrasebook.
My husband who is Lithuanian,
said its the oldest language in Europe.
That’s amazing, I looked it up - to find out it was true.
I think it should be noted that Labas is mainly only used to greet friends or people you know, Laba Diena for people you don't know. Well correct me if i"m wrong, but that's what my girlfriend told me, she is Lithuanian.
yep, she is right
Yes you a absoliutly corect. I am from to lithianian and labas:)
Laba Diana is good afternoon??
How did you get a Lituanian girlfriend?
I want one
ajay999999 lol they are 2 a penny in UK
"Viskas" for me sounds like cat food from advertising : )
Dang, Lithuanian sounds so cool :) Now I wanna go!! haha
You do need to know we have many diffrent accents and dialects. Some sound nice - and some don't.
Mouskell That accent and dialect is shown in the video ?. What is the most beautiful to you?..
Sebastian Matuk I think these are aukštaičių and žemaičių (samogitian), and those are called the "easiest" to understand.
There's suvalkiečių, which is called the "most archaic" dialect. And there's dzūkų - if a person has a very strong dzūkų dialect, he sounds horrible. I'm sure that most of lithuanians can agree with me. xd
Dan-The-Man Yes, cool, but don't come there in winter, or you will not be cool, it will be COLD. Very. And no mountains.
Cute video. My dad's parents were Lithuanian immigrants, and he spoke the language as a little boy.
Awesome video!
"kor yra", has the same exact meaning as the northern norwegian "kor er" and sounds almost exactly the same.
Dejawolfs *kur yra
Latvia and Lithuania are dhe best brothers
Everts Grotuss what about Estonia? I know there's sort of the weird one but I'm sure there's enough love for them too😀
Everts Grotuss sisters*
Wow. How excellent, quick and smooth. Thank you
Very good, I need to learn Lithuanian next year I will travel
I'm Polish and Lithuenian is like 10% slavic (mainly polish - russian) to me and the rest sounds Scandinavian.
tyrael864 Lithuanian is neither Slavic nor Scandinavian.
tyrael864 Lithuanian is neither of those. It's a Baltic language. Fun fact: Lithuanian is the oldest living Indo-European language.
I wrote "to me" That means that it sound like slavic - scandinavian, it does not mean that its true
tyrael864 I know. I'm just telling you what it actually is.
not true. people just say things like that because, morphologically speaking, it looks very old, but several languages have the same status. Greek, for example, has been around for at least as long, but it, unlike Lithuanian, may be traced back as far as the 16th century BC (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greek)
Thank you so helpful hope to find more I am starting to learn Lithuanian language....
I'm actually studying historical linguistic and I just discovered that lithuanian seems to be pretty close, in some ways, to indoeuropean. It's so fascinating!! Even if I'm italian, so reeeally far from you, I can recognize some root word similar to greek or latin ones!
Beautiful, thank you :)
Yes. Our language is the oldest surviving indo-europian language after all :)
Just like italians say "pomodoro" we say "pomidoras" :)
Yes! :D And it's amazing how numbers are really similar to latin and greek ones!
Astonishing language :)
babyjenks93 The grammar is hella difficult though :)
@@Mouskell
Not really. It is the typical grammar of many Indoeuropean languages.
And Sanskrit :)
I'm here from davids vlog. When don spoke Lithuanian I got intrigued
His country along with the other baltic states are super beautiful
Language video with loud music played over all the voices, yeah cheers for that lol
The girl at 0:16! I'm pretty sure that even if you aren't really feeling okay, her way of asking would cheer you up!
Man tikrai patiko šį video. Ačiū už pasidalijimą!
Great video. Would like some of them to be said more slowly, so a potential tourist could learn them. Also, need to have "where is the bathroom?" And "two Lithuanian beers please."
Baltic people have a unique look that is nice! In the US Lithuanians are low key, unlike say Irish and Italians, except for their unique surnames. I have known lots of Lithuanians since childhood - families with names like Cebonis, Balunas and Stasiulaitis - and though they have been here for generations with some mixing they all have a similar look characterized by beautiful eyes and big smiles.
in lithuania ppl less likely to smile, especially elderly. I guess this is because our government sucks
Margiris Sopaga That's wrong. Lithuanians smile oftenly. Obviously, if you talk to us grumpy, there's no point in smiling back.
While your assertions is correct, Baltic and Slavic appear to be slightly more linked together than the other Indo-European language families It stands to reason that knowledge of a more archaic stage of the Slavic languages would help a speaker of a Slavic language more easily understand Lithuanian. Like how learning Old English helps you understand German a tad better.
Four is keturi, which reminds me of the word for four in various Slavic languages as well as its Baltic brother Latvian.
Russian: четыре (chetyre)
Ukrainian: Чотири (chotyry)
Polish: cztery
Czech: čtyři
Serbo-Croatian: Четири/četiri
Latvian: četri
Though ultimately it reminds of the Latin quattuor and its Romance language derivatives like cuatro and quatre.
BTW I'm no polyglot. Just a guy whose looked up a lot of things in his life.
And in Irish (Gaelic) it's "ceathar" .
I compared my native language (Serbian) with Lithuanian, and I did find so many similar words... :D
I'm pretty sure I will try to learn my cousin language on the north! Greetings to my distant cousins!
Mark Dimitri I was learning Serbian with a friend of mine. He’s native and a language teacher. I want to learn Lithuanian first tho. Coz my girl is Lithuanian. Just met her like a few months back. I noticed straight away that the alphabet and pronunciation of letters is similar. Idk whether to stick with Serbian and do Lithuanian next. Go both at once or focus Lithuanian instead now. Any luck on learning it? Any tips?
Istina, ja sam Čeh i čak ja sam našao mnogo sličnih reči.
Laba- Diena - in Sanskrit लाभ-दिना - Labha-Dina. Labha - Benefit and Dina -Day. Benefial Day
Hi every body! Could someone translate this english phrase into Lithuanian:
"The Queen has finally got her own King".
Please!
You can use "Ir galiausiai Karalienė rado savo Karalių", meaning "And finally the Queen has found her King". You can use "Ir galiausiai Karalienė rado savajį Karalių" as well if you'd like, it sounds fancier. From a native speaker :) Hope this helped!
In 1959, my parents taught me to say I love you as, “as myliu tave”. Why the difference?
it still is As myliu tave - this stuff is just current slang etc... just like viso gero is not goodbye but literally means all good or all the best - nobody says su diev anymore for goodbye...
@@starfish5344 My maternal side got out before the totalitarian invasions. The were farmers and “sudiev” was common expression especially in the context of the coming Godless socialist murderous regime. When Lithuanians lose religion, they will become more like the Latvian cousins. Too bad.
Im latvian,but my all my grandparents from both parents side are lithuanians. I feel like more lithuanian not latvian. I know only some words in lithuanian like-Ačiū,Prašom,Labas dienas/vakaras/rytas,esu iš latvijos,aš myliu Lietuvai. :D
Sveiks! :D
You can't be more lithuania than latvia becouse this 2 countrys are same :-D we are brothers :-)
Johny Landers then how are you Latvian if your entire heritage seems to be Lithuanian haha?
"labas dienas" should be "laba diena" and "aš myliu lietuviai" should be "aš myliu lietuvius"
3:47 love the cat
sounds like russian, polish, and finnish. great... next to check out is estonian. honestly I'm scared to find out my ancestry because these are harder languages...lucky I'm mostly italian then, easy language ;;
i need to learn what yabujin is saying
I keep seeing comments that Lithuanian has the original sounding of proto Indo European languages. I wonder if this is true?
This is unlikely and impossible to say, since proto IE is just a reconstructed language spoken thousands of years ago, so nobody really for 100 % what this language was likely and much less how it sounded... I'm not a linguist though.
lexxypexxy It certainly doesn't sound anywhere close to PIE, but, unlike most of the other languages, it didn't develop a "unique" sound (think English,. French or Polish). So it sounds like most European languages sounded like 3 thousand years ago, just not what Proto-Indo-European sounded like.
lexxypexxy "The Lithuanian language is often said to be the most conservative living Indo-European language, retaining many features of Proto-Indo-European now lost in other Indo-European languages. Among Indo-European languages, 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 despite its late attestation (with the earliest texts dating only to c. 1500 AD). The phonology and especially the nominal morphology of Lithuanian is almost certainly the most conservative of any living Indo-European language" (Zinkevicius 1993, Encyclopædia Britannica).
melituke89 The fact that it's very conservative doesn't really say anything about its sound. Ancient Greek was pretty conservative as well, but it doesn't mean it sounded like either PIE or Lithuanian. To any non-Russian, Lithuanian sounds exactly like Russian, and even to me as a Russian it sounded like some East Slavic dialect the first time I heard it (and it still does). Some Lithuanians get pretty offended when you mention this though.
Sobakus All what I said in my comment was a quote, I didn't make it up. And yes, our pronunciation is different from English, French, or any other language. Our language is Balto-Slavic so no wonder we pronounce words in a similar way as in Russian. But if you try comparing vocabulary, it has nothing to do with Russian. Maybe just some slang phrases that appeared in our language during the last century, as we've been occupied by Soviet Union. But if you ask my opinion, it has something more in common to Greek or Latin, definitely not Russian.
2:10 the boy just cooked Whiskas?
Ha ha ha.
its helpful i am half Lithuanian grandpa side
I have to agree. While I was there I saw so many beautiful ladies. I wish I could visit again.
In three weeks I mastered the Lithuanian Language Quite Quckly with the Aid of the Worl Wide Web.
Would like to hear you speaking... )
1:09 Gotta get my derp face on!
There's a story. When God descended to the Earth, he started to ask something. And everyone wondered what language was that. Some thought it was Russian, for some it sounded Romanian or Turkish, others heard Italian or Irish, but alas, no one spoke the language they were comparing to. Poor God just sat on the ground with a facepalm and turned into a wooden Rūpintojėlis, because he spoke just plain Lithuanian...
Ricardas Ulozas you could tell a similar story about Portuguese lol
Music makes it hard to catch pronunciations
True
even as a half lithuanian i wouldnt fit in there ahah
Im Polish :( Ale chce aby dowiedziec sie litewski.
Lithuanian is the oldest surviving indo-europian language :)
Not the oldest but with the most ancient grammar.
***** Nope, it's as old as any other Indo-European language.
I hope you understand how stupid the word "old" is in this context.
I think you're looking for "conservative".
Eric Zaksauskas Yes, and we are NOT slavic and we have no mountains.
Au Tom Technically seen the oldest still spoken indo-european language is Sanskrit.
Best indian profesore said that lithuania much older then sanskrito :-)
I'm Lithuanian too
Am ghanaian and like and love it.
where was devyni=9(nine)
My husband is lithuanian, is the language hard to learn?
It is said, that lithuanian language is one of the hardest languages, because our grammar is really complicated. A lot of native lithuanians can't write really well lithuanian though..
Audra žemaitytė I honestly love learning lithuanian, it's not hard to me at all, it's only the congregations that get me confused, but I'm absolutely loving learning lituanian. It's a beautiful, awesome, language.
+Daisy Burks Reminds me of the guy who wakes up and finds a girl next to him in bed after a party and asks her name, then realizes that´s his wife....
Ačiū! 🇱🇹
some words are very similar to south slavic
The girl that says puikiai is so puikiai
Varos Varda James Kodjo Eric Graham.
Aciu por la Lungua de Lietuna.
I wanna go to Lithuania! :D
just do it! I already did and I love it!
I suggest visiting Klaipėda, Kaunas and Vilnius - other cities are pretty boring.
Mouskell I see you on a lot of Lithuania related videos.. :D :)
Beatrice Loves Bvb Yes indeed Beatrice, I am and what's wrong about that? because I'm Lithuanian. Any more queries :)?
alf redis Oh, I was replying to Mouskell. And I'm Lithuanian too. ^.^
Thanks
many of the words sound Slavic
+Shaun Gordon We only have similar pronunciation. Other than that you would be surprised to know that Russian actually has more words that are similar to English rather than to Lithuanian.
like what in slavic ?
'Closely' related is an ambiguous way to put it. Structurally and phonetically (to a certain degree), resemblances may be there indeed. Having said that, vocabularies are very very different, making mutual intelligibility pretty close to zero. Personally, I do not find it convincing they originate in one common proto-language. The story must have been more complicated than that. But then again, I'm a philosopher by background not a linguist.
One more thing, 'Slavic' is a very very broad term. For what do you mean it sounds Slavic? Slavic as in Russian, Polish or Bulgarian? These sound very different.
Norbert Klangschmied That's a lot of rubbish.
Lithuania has been run over by Slavs for centuries, so it makes sense it integrates a lot of Slavic sounds. Even when Lithuania was strong it united with the Slavic Poland to create a commonwealth.
I love Leituva
wrong comparison guy. Yes you can say balts and slavs are cousins, but not brothers:)
Amazing
now i found the european language diffiucult than swedish
they Say septinis and 9 deveni
also I am Lithuanian
10 hour loot video of learning Lithuanian
Distant cousins?
Geras atrodo mūsų Kalba yra tokia sunki
The kid is pronouncing "taip" like /taip/, i thought it was /teip/??
go to 1:06 that boy though
Balto-slavic languages...
Balts and slavs - distant cousins! :)
viskas is not thats all done viskas is everything thats all done is pilnai padaryta
Did You Know In Russia They Speak Lithuanian And In Lithuania They Speak Russia
2:55 to 3:02 that girls face
Sounds like Romanian when spoken.
+Neamhchodladh because Lithuanian is known to be similar to Latin and romanian in the past was heavily influenced by Latin so thats why there are similarities.
Labas ir atee
Im from lithuania XD
Laba Deina!
Mano vardas esa Kamile petrauskaite :3
Labas Kamile:))))
Diena ne deina D:
????????
Julius Volosevic Ji parašė laba deina. Rašosi diena, o ne deina.
Az :I
Troll face at 1:06
You watched too much uncle shows from lithuania, Tep, Aha.
cia tai liuxas ;) truksta Liuxas :)
like penki 5, south slavic pet.
sesi, ses
women are so good looking
Labas as lietuvis :D
labas ka tu
Labas
I don't know you guys but on my point of view Lithuanian sounds liek Russian, or at least something like that.. haha
so where is similarities ? Because i cant find any
Margiris Sopaga I did say SOUNDS not looks like.. intelligent. -_-
Sérgio Junior yes, it does a little bit, because of similar pronouniation, so it's easy to learn russian for lithuanians :D
Vita Rinkauskaitė Haha yeah I've realized that! :)
No. Lithuanian sounds like polish more, very little like russian.
Obviously, perhaps with the small amount of knowledge of slavic languages, you think only of russian. Pathetic.
Couldn't understand this shit because they say it so blet quickly, can't say labas because of sound.
Sudus kalbi
Nesikeik
Don't use words if you don't know how to use them.
jackdaknife Blet is russian...
Why would anyone want to learn lithuanian?
+Norbert Klangschmied Exactly. I'm going to learn Lithuanian to do business with them.
Dalet68 Why did you click on the video ?
To express my dislike of the Lithuanian language.
***** Why do you dislike it
Because I used to work with Lithuanian people and they always spoke Lithuanian and excluded me from the conversations, and thus I learned to hate it.