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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)
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.
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
It's because trough time our pronunciation changed a lot here is an example of how people talks in villages up to this day th-cam.com/video/S2RCQTFX6UU/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Balticfolk
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!
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).
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'm a Spanish speaker which also is an Indo-European language and I was able to find many similarities between Spanish and the Sanskrit and Lithuanian words mentioned in this video.
I don't know the correct name of Pius lx - is it the chronicle of x, I listened to a lot of interesting things there Jūratė Statkutė-Rosales lectures she lives in Venezuela Zeta the editor of the publication has been researching European history all her life and if it is true what she has dug up it turns upside down about gotų origin non avars they went further to portugal and that was earlier With respect p.s with respect Raimundas DARNOS to you
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 .
"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?
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.
@@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
@@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.
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 🤯
Look up the ancient connection of Scandinavia and the Baltics in Europe, and The Northern Parts of India and Pakistan. Then look at Norse Religion compared to Vedic and Hindu Religion. They all have a shared ancestory.
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!
@@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)
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 👍
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.
@@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.
Well it is also connected to much distant English language called DENTAL 😀. We all know Sanskrit and Lithuanian r oldest Alive laungauges in Tree of Indo European language
Because Spanish is derived from Latin which is the oldest Indo European language in Europe and has a lot of shared words with Sanskrit. English "Dental" also is derived from Latin. English is a highly Latinized Germanic language.
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!
@@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
@@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!!!
@@Apistoleon 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
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...).
@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.
@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
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 ;)
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!
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
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.
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.
@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 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.
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
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!
@@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 😄
@@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.
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 😂
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.
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!
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.
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!🧡🧡🧡
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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. :)
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
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
I’m of a quarter of Lithuanian descent from my mothers side, and having learned of the history of the language itself, it’s vastly interesting alongside its strong ties with Sanskrit. Thank you for the video!
That's interesting. In Russian Smoke = дым (dym) , Who = кто ( kto), Honey = мёд (myed), Wind = ветер (veter), Your = твой (tvoi) , Day = день (den) Also similar to Sanskrit. ( I can’t convey Russian sounds well in Latin letters.)
I can read Cyrillic and I think you did pretty good job to convey the sounds. There is long history of Ruthenians and Lithuanians forming alliances and being ruled by the same rulers so there are many similar words in Lithunian/Latvian, Ukrainian and Belarusian triangle and Russian has a lot of similarities with both Ukrainian and Belarusian as both are slavic languages.
In Croatian / Serbian its of course very similar. Dhuma (smoke) is dim, svapna (dream) is san, agni (fire) is similar to ugljen, which means coal. Ka (who) is Kto. Madhu (honey) is med, vayu (wind) is vjetar, tavo (you) is tvoj, jivati (live) is zivjeti
Ogon or ogni or however you might say is something I noticed a long time ago as a native Bengali speaker, before I knew about Indo-European languages. We say Agun or some variation, and in some mutations of the word we use "ogon". "Eto" is very similar to how we use "eto, eta, ota," etc. The prepositional case is pretty much identical and verbs in past tense sound very similar. "On, ona, ono, oni" are cognates with "O, ona, uni," and some other stuff I guess. Both Bengali and Russian have 6 cases. So, not just lexically, but also grammatically Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian languages are close. Balto-Slavic languages are also partially satemized, and Indo-Iranian is fully satem. One big difference betwen Russian and Bengali grammar is that Bengali has no grammatical gender and neither does English. As a result, if I try to learn Russian, I will be mixing up all the genders!
Same in Polish: dym, kto, miód, twój, dzień. Both Lithuanian and Sankrit words for „wind” are strikingly similar to the Polish verb „wiać, wieje” which means „to blow (wind)” - used exclusively in this context (wiatr wieje - wind is blowing). Slavic „tooth” (ząb / зуб - zub) seems unrelated but our versions of „the gums or gingiva” - „dziąsło / десна - desna” are suspiciously similar to Sanskrit and lithuanian words for teeth. (Note: Polish „ą” and „ę” are nasal „o”and „e”, respectively)
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
You can find so many similarities with ancient Latin too (And by extension Italian and English)! So fascinating Edit. I am going to list some examples of the Latin counterpart, giving a latin-derived English word when possible as well: Dhumas - Fumus (like in "fume") Sapna - Somnium Agni - Ignis (ignite) Dantis - Dentis (dentist) Ka - Quid Vyras - Vir (virile) Medha - Melis (Mead is an English word that comes to mind, possibly from a Germanic root) Deva - Deus Sanas - Senex (senate) Dina - Dies Gyventi - Vivere Avis - Ovis
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.
@@ShamankaIlona 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.
@@Hun_Uinaqjust 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.
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! :)
I've heard about similarities between Sanskrit and Lithuanian. But I was surprised, that I could guess almost all words myself, as a speaker of other Baltic language - Latvian. Many words are almost the same - dūmi, uguns, sens, vējš, diena, Dievs, vīrs and so on. And word "to live" - dzīvot... also is very close by pronunciation. We also have 6 cases plus Vokatīvs. Thanks for the video. And hello to our lovely neighbours Lithuanians))))
Even some Georgian word is similar to sanskrit text I found almost 1/4 major language having various sanskrit words across Europe, south east asia, east asia and south Asia
Many of these are the same in the Slavic languages. It is also funny how dzīvot is живот (zhivot) in Bulgarian, which means "life", while in Russian живот means "belly". Life is жизнь (zhizn') in Russian.
Thank you so much for this video! I am a native Lithuanian and I have been teaching Lithuanian on TH-cam for quite some time now, and I was so surprised when I a lot of the viewers/students from India and other countries started to comment on the similarities between the languages. As I have recently started to be really interested in in Hinduism and Buddhism (which Sanskrit is a liturgical language of) I find this connection of Sanskrit and Lithuanian as some sort of sinchronicity in my life. Simply awesome :)
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.
@@anuragjain37 There is no archaeological evidence that suggests Sanskrit Vedas are ancient, it is a false propaganda of Sanskrit scholars and supporters.
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 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’.
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
@@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.
@@ДенисД-ф5вI mean, in Lithuania Paganism never was eradicated or forced converted. Pagans are official minority in Lithuania and we have Pagan sculptures and idols across villages everywhere. we even celebrate some Pagan celebrations as a national holidays. but obviously most people are Catholics. but Paganism is something that is our mythology, and early folk music, ethnic ornaments, are all Pagan. we literally have many Swastikas as our early Pagan ornaments. :D we just have Paganism as part of our national identity and history. I mean, we was the last official Pagan country in Europe, and we accepted Christianity only on our terms peacefully. northern Teutonic crusade was beat in 1410, Grunwald Battle.
As a latvian I was in awe with how I could guess most of the words in latvian as well with ease, I had heard before that there was a relation to Sanskrit in school, but we were never given examples, so this was pretty cool. Big thanks to everyone who made it happen! This was really dope
Awesome video, great insights from Arnika and Paulius 👌🏽👍🏽😊🙏🏽 Happy to see the video on Vishwa Samskrita Dinam (World Sanskrit Day) which is celebrated on the full moon day of Sharavana month 😊🙏
Wow! Wow!!!! Amazing! Awesome! I’ve never ever ever thought that Lithuanian and Sanskrit might have anything in common! I wonder how close Sanskrit and Russian are, bc several words I understood due to their similarity with Russian words. And also I’m very interested in similarities between Sanskrit and Uzbek! Oh, it must be very intriguing as Uzbek is even not one of the Indo-European languages. I wanna participate in your program, Bahador!!!❤❤❤ Arnika is such a pleasant and beautiful person💜 Totally loved your video!
@@petrakov6531 Sanskrit seems highly sophisticated and rigorous and seems to influence various Slavic and European languages. I think before the abrahamic religions came into being, these people venerated nature and were highly organized. I would love to have a time machine and go back and see their origins.
With a Master’s in Applied Linguistics I found this absolutely fascinating. I guessed some of the words because they are so similar to Latin. And what charming people you are. What’s not to like about this video? 😊
I’m an Italian speaker and I studied Latin and Greek in grammar school. I could guess all the words except banga (the Latin equivalent would be unda, I’m not familiar enough with linguistics to tell whether you can get from banga to unda through phonetical changes).
Finallly, a video like this! I have been studying languages myself and I have always been facinated with the origins and similarities of languages. I am a Lithuanian speaker and have been working with Indian people from Kerala for some time. They do not speak sanskrit but a Dravidian language, called Malayalam; but they still find it astonishing me being able to repeat their words flawlesly. The world is really a small place. Love to all :). Ačiū- SvastyakSara.
Sanskrit and Lithuanian are two ancient Indo-European languages that share some linguistic and grammatical similarities due to their common ancestral heritage. While they are not mutually intelligible, they exhibit certain resemblances, as both belong to the Indo-European language family. Here are some similarities between Sanskrit and Lithuanian: Common Indo-European Roots: Both Sanskrit and Lithuanian have evolved from a common ancestral Indo-European language. This shared ancestry means that they have some lexical and grammatical similarities. Case System: Both languages have a rich case system with several grammatical cases. Sanskrit has eight grammatical cases, while Lithuanian has seven. These cases are used to indicate the role of nouns and pronouns in a sentence, such as nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, etc. Gender: Sanskrit and Lithuanian both have a gender system for nouns. In Sanskrit, there are three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Lithuanian also has a gender system, though it is more simplified, with two genders: masculine and feminine. Verb Conjugation: Both languages feature complex verb conjugation systems. Verbs are inflected to indicate tense, mood, voice, and person. This is particularly evident in classical Sanskrit, which has a highly developed system of verb conjugation. Word Order: Sanskrit and Lithuanian typically exhibit a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order in sentences, which is relatively uncommon among Indo-European languages, where subject-verb-object (SVO) is more prevalent. However, this SOV word order is not as strict in Lithuanian as it is in Sanskrit. Declension of Nouns and Adjectives: Nouns and adjectives in both languages undergo declension to agree in case, number, and gender. This means that their endings change based on their grammatical function in a sentence. Inflectional Endings: Sanskrit and Lithuanian both use inflectional endings to convey grammatical information. These endings are added to the end of words to indicate various grammatical features, such as case, number, and gender. Root Words: Both languages have root words from which other words are derived. These root words form the basis of the vocabulary in each language. Cognates: There are some cognates, or words with a common origin, between Sanskrit and Lithuanian. These cognates demonstrate their shared Indo-European heritage. However, the number of cognates is relatively limited compared to other Indo-European language pairs. LOVE FROM INDIA.
Laba diena. Linkėjimai iš Lietuvos. Noriu papil dyti : Gender: Sanskrit and Lithuanian both have a gender system for nouns. In Sanskrit, there are three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Lithuanian also has a gender system, though it is more simplified, with two genders: masculine and feminine..... In the Lithuanian language, there is a nameless genitive, but it is used in adjectives: bálta, šálta, míela, malonù Geros dienos
Until few hundred years ago people lived in Europe were peasants and hunter gatherers. Sanskrit is the most advanced and scientific language in the world. Peasants cannot create such an advanced language. Sanskrit is purely Indian. . There was no grammar in European languages so scholars used ancient Indian scholar named Panini's book Ashtadhyay to modify and uplift their languages, this is the reason why European languages are similar to Sanskrit. There is no such a thing called PIE.
@@bpmalanadu7136European languages were not "created" by scholars, as you imply!! They evolved over millennia influenced by a horde of factors including trade, conflict and migration. You really have a limited understanding of linguistics and sociology and have a misplaced superiority complex... I'm Indian too btw but am not overly prideful about my culture, which is just one among many equally rich ones. Learn some humility.
@@Mscellany1 Every language is evolved so are European languages but heavily influenced by Indian languages due to the cultural, academical, religious and trade influence of ancient India happened in those times.
As a Thai, I can recognize most of the words. Thai borrows a lot of Sanskrit vocabularies. However, most of them are not used in everyday lives. They are considered "high" words used in religions, poems, state official documents. Some words are used in everyday life such as Vayu (Payu in Thai pronunciation) which means storm (not just wind as in Sanskrit). It's meaning shift.
Same here in many South Indian languages, I’m a native Telugu speaker and most of our poetic words come from Sanskrit. Guess what , even vayu means air in our poems😂
Finaly this will debunk the Aryan invasion theory and establish that it was Indians who moved out of india and spread to other parts of the world because German, French, English did not create Sanskrit but Sanskrit ended up as these languages as they rooted out from it mostly out of mispronunciation. And the land where the orginal language exists even today is India while the so called Aryan invasion theorists brag about it coming into India thousands of years back never find it as intact as it is India despite having no invasions in their land.
@@Royalbob123 Thai belongs to Kra-Dai language family. It's based on neither Chinese nor Sanskrit. However, Thai ancestors contacted so closely with Chinese that they borrowed a lot of words and some phonetic features from ancient Chinese. This is due to the fact that Tai speaking people homeland are in southern area of today's China. Therefore, their language were influenced by Chinese both geographically and authoritatively. Later when some groups of Tai people migrated down to today's Thailand, they associated with Mon-Khmer people who had already absorbed Indian culture, including Sanskrit and Pali languages mostly via Buddhism and Hinduism religions. In addition, there were Indian merchants and priests in the area at the time. So Thai heavily received Sanskrit and Pali words both directly via Indian and indirectly via Mon-Khmer peoples.
Hi guys! This is Paulius, the Lithuanian speaker from the video. 🙋♂
If you want to learn Lithuanian, I invite you to check out my comprehensible Lithuanian podcast for foreign students. 🎧
Similar to Sri Lankan sinhala
@@simplexination9837yes nobody wants to learn neither Sinhala nor Lithuanian
@@sunlit777 Funny, because I have dozens of students learning Lithuanian. But you know better, don't you? :D
@@LithuanianwithPaulius Russians who were made to by Lithuanian government? 😉
@@sunlit777 haha, no, those who have friends, family or colleagues here.
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.
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.
Yes, same
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 th-cam.com/video/S2RCQTFX6UU/w-d-xo.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.
@@СмыслЖизни-с3мHindi is basically Prakrit+Sanskrit, Prakrit came out of Sanskrit.
@@СмыслЖизни-с3мthose who know Hindi can understand Sanskrit too as Hindi is derived from Sanskrit.
this is the most interesting connection between languages, I'm so fascinated by this. Thank you so much for making this video!
Now, for the trillion dollar question: Did the "Aryans" originate in India, Europe, or Central Asia?
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.
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“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.”
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Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India. ~ Ludwig von Shroeder
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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."
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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".
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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”
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“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 👍🏻
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🙏
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🤓
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!
@@Poriotics Lithuanian isn't derived from Sanskrit, though. It's like a sister language or a cousin:)
I'm a Spanish speaker which also is an Indo-European language and I was able to find many similarities between Spanish and the Sanskrit and Lithuanian words mentioned in this video.
I don't know the correct name of Pius lx - is it the chronicle of x, I listened to a lot of interesting things there Jūratė Statkutė-Rosales lectures she lives in Venezuela Zeta the editor of the publication has been researching European history all her life and if it is true what she has dug up it turns upside down about gotų origin non avars they went further to portugal and that was earlier With respect p.s with respect Raimundas DARNOS to you
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 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" :)
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 :)
Seeing 2 language nerds comparing their languages that share an ancient language family...this is so so interesting!!
Indo-European or Eurasian
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
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.
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 😂
As an Indian I hadn't heard the name of the country Lithuania before. After this video I found they are our distance brothers and sisters. ❤
Look up the ancient connection of Scandinavia and the Baltics in Europe, and The Northern Parts of India and Pakistan. Then look at Norse Religion compared to Vedic and Hindu Religion. They all have a shared ancestory.
It's similar to luthiyana from Bihar.....luthuania
When I was in 8th, my geography teacher told us that there are 3 baltic countries - Latvia, Lithuania and Astoniya.
It's Estonia @@kiranshekhawat2457
@@kiranshekhawat2457 Estonia (not astoniya)
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)
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
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.
I'm spanish speaker and I understood when the Lithuanian said dantis because sound similar to Dientes in Spanish and means the same
Well it is also connected to much distant English language called DENTAL 😀.
We all know Sanskrit and Lithuanian r oldest Alive laungauges in Tree of Indo European language
Latin dens, dentis
Greek odoús, odóntos (odontología)
Because Spanish is derived from Latin which is the oldest Indo European language in Europe and has a lot of shared words with Sanskrit.
English "Dental" also is derived from Latin. English is a highly Latinized Germanic language.
@@zippyparakeet1074 the oldest Indo-European language was Mycenaean greek
@@gabrielgallardo5824 True, my bad
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 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!!!
@@Apistoleon
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
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
Really fascinating to see the similarities 😅 love from India 🇮🇳
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 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
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 has been an excellent competition. thank you for allowing me the chance of comparison! :D you are both so skilled!!!
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.
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.
I’m of Indian ancestry, and have studied Sanskrit quite a bit, and I truly enjoy your videos! They’re so informative and interesting! ❤
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
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 😄
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.
@@heresy1987LV amazing we are distant cousins
As latgalien. word day-> dína -> diena(LT)->diena(LV) is same dīna at latgalien 😅
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.
So impressive. Both have deep knowledge of the languages and communication methodology of tough words in simple way is amazing.
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.
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.
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! 🤗
@@theinkwellpod🧡🧡🧡
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!
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
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.
An yes, it was a pleasure to see the participants. So calm, very intelligent and respectful. Thank you for the video!
This video is undoubtedly the best and meaningful video I have seen in recent times. Best wishes to the organizer and both the presenters.
I'm learning so much from you guys ❤️ Best regards from Poland❤...not to mention phonics that sound very familiar to my language ❤
❤from Australia 🇦🇺- father was Lithuanian and spoke 10 languages!
O tu? Ar kalbi lietuviškai?
@@dainiussla1649tu is you in hindi , our national language in India
@@EffectiveLearning-ek6vo Hindi is not national language.but official language of india.English too another official language.
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.
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
I am Hungarian and we studied that baltic languages are unique without relatives.
I am happy to find this video! Thank you for sharing it. ❤
how could we have learned such stupidity? everyone knows that the Balto-Slavic language family exists.
I'm speaking Lithuanian language and I'm shocked by the similarities
Oh wow, as a Lithuanian, this was wonderful to watch! History of languages is an amazing thing!
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. :)
ඔව් ඔව් මචං හීබෘ වලත් ඔහොමයි
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Nice way to present this without boredom! Nice! Way to go!
Enjoyed playing the guessing game. Greetings from Latvia 🇱🇻
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?
@@sahasransusbarik look the hrbaskar comment 🤣🤣
I’m of a quarter of Lithuanian descent from my mothers side, and having learned of the history of the language itself, it’s vastly interesting alongside its strong ties with Sanskrit.
Thank you for the video!
Sanskrit❤ Lithuanian
That's interesting. In Russian Smoke = дым (dym) , Who = кто ( kto), Honey = мёд (myed), Wind = ветер (veter), Your = твой (tvoi) , Day = день (den) Also similar to Sanskrit. ( I can’t convey Russian sounds well in Latin letters.)
I can read Cyrillic and I think you did pretty good job to convey the sounds. There is long history of Ruthenians and Lithuanians forming alliances and being ruled by the same rulers so there are many similar words in Lithunian/Latvian, Ukrainian and Belarusian triangle and Russian has a lot of similarities with both Ukrainian and Belarusian as both are slavic languages.
In Croatian / Serbian its of course very similar. Dhuma (smoke) is dim, svapna (dream) is san, agni (fire) is similar to ugljen, which means coal. Ka (who) is Kto. Madhu (honey) is med, vayu (wind) is vjetar, tavo (you) is tvoj, jivati (live) is zivjeti
Agni je na srpskom oganj😉@@00MSG
Ogon or ogni or however you might say is something I noticed a long time ago as a native Bengali speaker, before I knew about Indo-European languages. We say Agun or some variation, and in some mutations of the word we use "ogon". "Eto" is very similar to how we use "eto, eta, ota," etc. The prepositional case is pretty much identical and verbs in past tense sound very similar. "On, ona, ono, oni" are cognates with "O, ona, uni," and some other stuff I guess. Both Bengali and Russian have 6 cases.
So, not just lexically, but also grammatically Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian languages are close. Balto-Slavic languages are also partially satemized, and Indo-Iranian is fully satem.
One big difference betwen Russian and Bengali grammar is that Bengali has no grammatical gender and neither does English. As a result, if I try to learn Russian, I will be mixing up all the genders!
Same in Polish: dym, kto, miód, twój, dzień. Both Lithuanian and Sankrit words for „wind” are strikingly similar to the Polish verb „wiać, wieje” which means „to blow (wind)” - used exclusively in this context (wiatr wieje - wind is blowing). Slavic „tooth” (ząb / зуб - zub) seems unrelated but our versions of „the gums or gingiva” - „dziąsło / десна - desna” are suspiciously similar to Sanskrit and lithuanian words for teeth. (Note: Polish „ą” and „ę” are nasal „o”and „e”, respectively)
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".
It was a delightful video. The Sanskrit- Lithuanian-Latvian would be interesting as a second episode.:)
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
You can find so many similarities with ancient Latin too (And by extension Italian and English)! So fascinating
Edit. I am going to list some examples of the Latin counterpart, giving a latin-derived English word when possible as well:
Dhumas - Fumus (like in "fume")
Sapna - Somnium
Agni - Ignis (ignite)
Dantis - Dentis (dentist)
Ka - Quid
Vyras - Vir (virile)
Medha - Melis (Mead is an English word that comes to mind, possibly from a Germanic root)
Deva - Deus
Sanas - Senex (senate)
Dina - Dies
Gyventi - Vivere
Avis - Ovis
Great job, thanks for sharing the Latin words!
Bhratru- Bother
Matru- Mother
Pritu- Father
All European languages match Sanskrit and North Indian current languages
Naam - Nome (Name)
They are Indo-European languages as well. Hence the similarities.
This blew my mind! Lands so far apart (and seemingly dissimilar) yet with obvious ancient language connections. 🙏
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.
@@ShamankaIlona 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.
@@Hun_Uinaqjust 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.
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.
It's always inspirational to know people so far away from you have been sharing something with you forever.. Kudos to all the three of you.. 🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That's very awesome! I'm from Latvia, it's neighbour country with Lithuania and it's fascinating that I could understand 80% of all those examples
I've heard about similarities between Sanskrit and Lithuanian. But I was surprised, that I could guess almost all words myself, as a speaker of other Baltic language - Latvian. Many words are almost the same - dūmi, uguns, sens, vējš, diena, Dievs, vīrs and so on. And word "to live" - dzīvot... also is very close by pronunciation. We also have 6 cases plus Vokatīvs.
Thanks for the video. And hello to our lovely neighbours Lithuanians))))
Big thanks and a hug from Lithuania!
Even some Georgian word is similar to sanskrit text I found almost 1/4 major language having various sanskrit words across Europe, south east asia, east asia and south Asia
... we also have 6 *cases ...
@@manfredneilmann4305 thanks for noticing the typo. But we also have 6 declensions 😅
Many of these are the same in the Slavic languages. It is also funny how dzīvot is живот (zhivot) in Bulgarian, which means "life", while in Russian живот means "belly". Life is жизнь (zhizn') in Russian.
Thank you so much for this video! I am a native Lithuanian and I have been teaching Lithuanian on TH-cam for quite some time now, and I was so surprised when I a lot of the viewers/students from India and other countries started to comment on the similarities between the languages. As I have recently started to be really interested in in Hinduism and Buddhism (which Sanskrit is a liturgical language of) I find this connection of Sanskrit and Lithuanian as some sort of sinchronicity in my life. Simply awesome :)
Great practice and learning for an American who’s lived in Lithuania. Thank you!
I guest if you want more practice, you will love my podcast as well!
I had heard a lot about Lithuanian being conservative, but I had no idea it was this much!
Wonderful video. Thanks for the effort. Congratulations to the team behind. ❤❤❤
Incredible video, Bahador! I remember you mentioning years ago how you wanted to do a video like this 😊
Thank you Lina! Yes!! I've been wanting to do this for years. Since back when we made the videos in-person. Glad to finally have done it :)
This is both astounding and relaxing. I have language envy.
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 🙏😊
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.
Wonderful similarities between Lithuanian and Sanskrit 😊
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.
Janm means born in sanskrit
Tuum means you in hindi
@@GamesYT.1 Derived from tvam...
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.
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
Really enjoyed this beautiful interaction. It was so positive and inspiring. Thanks for making this!
This is so cool! I had no idea Sanskrit and Lithuanian were similar
Excellent ! Perfect illustration of the Indo-European language family!
This is SO freaking coooool, please do more!! I’m proud to be half Lithuanian and delving deep into our history especially Baltic paganism 😍🙏
Hey Davina we hindus follow paganism
@@Quranavirus786stop licking Western A*ses. Hinduism is not Paganism. Hinduism is a henotheistic Dharmic religion.
@@Quranavirus786
А хорошо ли это?
@@ДенисД-ф5в Nope it's not good
@@ДенисД-ф5вI mean, in Lithuania Paganism never was eradicated or forced converted.
Pagans are official minority in Lithuania and we have Pagan sculptures and idols across villages everywhere.
we even celebrate some Pagan celebrations as a national holidays.
but obviously most people are Catholics.
but Paganism is something that is our mythology, and early folk music, ethnic ornaments, are all Pagan. we literally have many Swastikas as our early Pagan ornaments. :D
we just have Paganism as part of our national identity and history.
I mean, we was the last official Pagan country in Europe, and we accepted Christianity only on our terms peacefully.
northern Teutonic crusade was beat in 1410, Grunwald Battle.
Arnika, kudos to you. I always find these videos so insightful. Also, your soft spoken and gentle style is really wonderful. Thank you for all of it.
Thank you so much; I truly appreciate that :)
As a latvian I was in awe with how I could guess most of the words in latvian as well with ease, I had heard before that there was a relation to Sanskrit in school, but we were never given examples, so this was pretty cool. Big thanks to everyone who made it happen! This was really dope
Very interesting… also so nice to see how more than very respectful both speakers are, even when not clearly understanding each other. Beautiful!
Che bella idea hai avuto con il tuo canale. È molto interessante. Graziee 🙏💜💡
They are so so polite anf respectful. I love how genuinely nice they seem to be. Just loved this interaction.
Bahador, this was an amazing video!
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 ❤
Awesome video, great insights from Arnika and Paulius 👌🏽👍🏽😊🙏🏽
Happy to see the video on Vishwa Samskrita Dinam (World Sanskrit Day) which is celebrated on the full moon day of Sharavana month 😊🙏
Wow! Wow!!!! Amazing! Awesome! I’ve never ever ever thought that Lithuanian and Sanskrit might have anything in common!
I wonder how close Sanskrit and Russian are, bc several words I understood due to their similarity with Russian words. And also I’m very interested in similarities between Sanskrit and Uzbek! Oh, it must be very intriguing as Uzbek is even not one of the Indo-European languages. I wanna participate in your program, Bahador!!!❤❤❤
Arnika is such a pleasant and beautiful person💜
Totally loved your video!
All slavic languauges have these similarities with Sanskrit.
@@petrakov6531 Sanskrit seems highly sophisticated and rigorous and seems to influence various Slavic and European languages. I think before the abrahamic religions came into being, these people venerated nature and were highly organized. I would love to have a time machine and go back and see their origins.
With a Master’s in Applied Linguistics I found this absolutely fascinating. I guessed some of the words because they are so similar to Latin. And what charming people you are. What’s not to like about this video? 😊
I’m an Italian speaker and I studied Latin and Greek in grammar school. I could guess all the words except banga (the Latin equivalent would be unda, I’m not familiar enough with linguistics to tell whether you can get from banga to unda through phonetical changes).
There is nothing to amazed. Sanskrit came to Northern India with an Aryan invasion / migration / diffusion whatever way you may choose to say.
Loved it!
They are both very humble and respectful and I'm loving these qualities!
Well done! 👏👏👏
This is fascinating. Thank you both for being such good ambassadors for your languages. ❤
It was fascinating to hear the connections between Lithuanian and Sanskrit. Since I know a fair amount of Lithuanian, it was fun to play along!
hey Mr.Paulius....nice to meet you here.Its great to learn about similarities in both languages!
Finallly, a video like this! I have been studying languages myself and I have always been facinated with the origins and similarities of languages. I am a Lithuanian speaker and have been working with Indian people from Kerala for some time. They do not speak sanskrit but a Dravidian language, called Malayalam; but they still find it astonishing me being able to repeat their words flawlesly. The world is really a small place. Love to all :). Ačiū- SvastyakSara.
Among the south Indian languages, malyalam uses almost 70% Sanskrit words
Malayalam is a mix of Tamil (a Dravidian language) and Sanskrit.
@@satishkumarl4999I'm so envious lol
Malayalam has lots of Sanskrit in it and the speakers dont abhor Sanskrit words due to their religious orientation
Sanskrit and Lithuanian are two ancient Indo-European languages that share some linguistic and grammatical similarities due to their common ancestral heritage. While they are not mutually intelligible, they exhibit certain resemblances, as both belong to the Indo-European language family. Here are some similarities between Sanskrit and Lithuanian:
Common Indo-European Roots: Both Sanskrit and Lithuanian have evolved from a common ancestral Indo-European language. This shared ancestry means that they have some lexical and grammatical similarities.
Case System: Both languages have a rich case system with several grammatical cases. Sanskrit has eight grammatical cases, while Lithuanian has seven. These cases are used to indicate the role of nouns and pronouns in a sentence, such as nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, etc.
Gender: Sanskrit and Lithuanian both have a gender system for nouns. In Sanskrit, there are three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Lithuanian also has a gender system, though it is more simplified, with two genders: masculine and feminine.
Verb Conjugation: Both languages feature complex verb conjugation systems. Verbs are inflected to indicate tense, mood, voice, and person. This is particularly evident in classical Sanskrit, which has a highly developed system of verb conjugation.
Word Order: Sanskrit and Lithuanian typically exhibit a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order in sentences, which is relatively uncommon among Indo-European languages, where subject-verb-object (SVO) is more prevalent. However, this SOV word order is not as strict in Lithuanian as it is in Sanskrit.
Declension of Nouns and Adjectives: Nouns and adjectives in both languages undergo declension to agree in case, number, and gender. This means that their endings change based on their grammatical function in a sentence.
Inflectional Endings: Sanskrit and Lithuanian both use inflectional endings to convey grammatical information. These endings are added to the end of words to indicate various grammatical features, such as case, number, and gender.
Root Words: Both languages have root words from which other words are derived. These root words form the basis of the vocabulary in each language.
Cognates: There are some cognates, or words with a common origin, between Sanskrit and Lithuanian. These cognates demonstrate their shared Indo-European heritage. However, the number of cognates is relatively limited compared to other Indo-European language pairs.
LOVE FROM INDIA.
Laba diena. Linkėjimai iš Lietuvos. Noriu papil dyti : Gender: Sanskrit and Lithuanian both have a gender system for nouns. In Sanskrit, there are three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Lithuanian also has a gender system, though it is more simplified, with two genders: masculine and feminine..... In the Lithuanian language, there is a nameless genitive, but it is used in adjectives: bálta, šálta, míela, malonù
Geros dienos
congrats to India
Until few hundred years ago people lived in Europe were peasants and hunter gatherers. Sanskrit is the most advanced and scientific language in the world. Peasants cannot create such an advanced language. Sanskrit is purely Indian. . There was no grammar in European languages so scholars used ancient Indian scholar named Panini's book Ashtadhyay to modify and uplift their languages, this is the reason why European languages are similar to Sanskrit. There is no such a thing called PIE.
@@bpmalanadu7136European languages were not "created" by scholars, as you imply!! They evolved over millennia influenced by a horde of factors including trade, conflict and migration. You really have a limited understanding of linguistics and sociology and have a misplaced superiority complex... I'm Indian too btw but am not overly prideful about my culture, which is just one among many equally rich ones. Learn some humility.
@@Mscellany1 Every language is evolved so are European languages but heavily influenced by Indian languages due to the cultural, academical, religious and trade influence of ancient India happened in those times.
As a Thai, I can recognize most of the words. Thai borrows a lot of Sanskrit vocabularies. However, most of them are not used in everyday lives. They are considered "high" words used in religions, poems, state official documents. Some words are used in everyday life such as Vayu (Payu in Thai pronunciation) which means storm (not just wind as in Sanskrit). It's meaning shift.
Same. In india Sanskrit words are also considered ' High' and used in religious activities and official documents.
Nice. Thai language is based on Sanskrit or any other similar one like chines etc ?
Same here in many South Indian languages, I’m a native Telugu speaker and most of our poetic words come from Sanskrit. Guess what , even vayu means air in our poems😂
Finaly this will debunk the Aryan invasion theory and establish that it was Indians who moved out of india and spread to other parts of the world because German, French, English did not create Sanskrit but Sanskrit ended up as these languages as they rooted out from it mostly out of mispronunciation. And the land where the orginal language exists even today is India while the so called Aryan invasion theorists brag about it coming into India thousands of years back never find it as intact as it is India despite having no invasions in their land.
@@Royalbob123 Thai belongs to Kra-Dai language family. It's based on neither Chinese nor Sanskrit. However, Thai ancestors contacted so closely with Chinese that they borrowed a lot of words and some phonetic features from ancient Chinese. This is due to the fact that Tai speaking people homeland are in southern area of today's China. Therefore, their language were influenced by Chinese both geographically and authoritatively.
Later when some groups of Tai people migrated down to today's Thailand, they associated with Mon-Khmer people who had already absorbed Indian culture, including Sanskrit and Pali languages mostly via Buddhism and Hinduism religions.
In addition, there were Indian merchants and priests in the area at the time. So Thai heavily received Sanskrit and Pali words both directly via Indian and indirectly via Mon-Khmer peoples.