Which is the most conservative Slavic language?

Standard Bulgarian is much more conservative than Standard Macedonian. Considering the vowels, Standard Macedonian is the least conservative than every other Slavic language.

What is the most conservative Indo European language?

Lithuanian is the most conservative Indo-European language. Closely related to Sanskrit it happens to be one of the oldest languages in the world, one of the least commonly spoken in Europe, as well as one of the biggest prides of Lithuanian culture.

Is Lithuanian a Slavic language?

Lithuanian (Lithuanian: lietuvių kalba) is a Baltic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Lithuanian is closely related to the neighbouring Latvian language.

Why is Lithuanian so conservative?

Lithuanian is closely related to the neighbouring Latvian language. It is written in a Latin script. It is said to be the most conservative of the existing Indo-European languages, retaining features of the Proto-Indo-European language now lost in other languages.

Is Slovenian similar to Czech?

All in all, Slovenian is much closer to Czech or Slovak than Polish, but again that applies to Polish too (being closer to Czech and Slovak than to Slovenian). They are similar but not mutually intelligible. Polish is west Slavic whereas Slovenian is south Slavic.

Can Lithuanians understand Sanskrit?

“The Lithuanian language is more ancient than Greek, Latin, German, Celtic and the Slav tongues. It belongs to the Indo-European group and is the nearest idiom to Sanskrit. The resemblance, indeed, is so close that Lithuanian peasants can understand Sanskrit sentences pronounced by learned scholars.”

Is Lithuanian Slavic or Germanic?

It difficult to tell because all of Slavic languages are distant enough from Lithuanians. Slavic,Baltic and Germanic languages separated few thousand of years ago. Well, the Lithuanian language is in the Baltic language group.

Is the Lithuanian language similar to other Baltic languages?

Lithuanian is one of two living Baltic languages, along with Latvian. An earlier Baltic language, Old Prussian, was extinct by the 19th century; the other Western Baltic languages, Curonian and Sudovian, went extinct earlier. Latvian is pretty similar but it’s not Slavic.

Why is Lithuanian considered a conservative language?

Among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian is conservative in some aspects of its grammar and phonology, retaining archaic features otherwise found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit (particularly its early form, Vedic Sanskrit) or Ancient Greek.

Is Latvian a Slavic language?

An earlier Baltic language, Old Prussian, was extinct by the 19th century; the other Western Baltic languages, Curonian and Sudovian, went extinct earlier. Latvian is pretty similar but it’s not Slavic.