LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE

The Lithuanian language, whatever its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than either Sanskrit or Greek, more copious than Latin, and exquisitely refined than any of these three. Yet, Lithuanian bears to all of them a stronger affinity than could have been produced by nature, not only in the roots of verbs, but also in forms of grammatical structure and the morphological construction of words. Scholars have recognized the Lithuanians as exponents of the primitive Aryan culture and civilization. Renowned philologists have agreed that the Lithuanian is not only the oldest language in the world today, but the language used by Aryans before the invention of evolution of Sanskrit. The antiquity of Lithuanian language and its grammatical structure place it in the same period with the oldest Sanskrit 2000 B.C. or earlier. While a different array of characters (pictures, drawings) took the current shape of letters, it took ages. After all, once the letter A was the head of the bull drawing, letter E was puppet that keeps arms up, M wave of the sea , P evolved from the horse's head symbol, T pointed cross ..

Most European countries use the Latin alphabet, the letter by putting some of the diacritical marks to express specific sounds (Diacritics - added audio language characters that are at the top or near the bottom of the letter and modifying or revising the aural sense). In Lithuanian alphabet with diacritics are nine specific letters: , , , , , , , , . It uses four types of diacritical signs: the handkerchief (nosin) (, , , ), the point at the top (), a dash on the top () and tick on the top (, , ). Some facts: Age of Lithuanian language and its grammatical structure assigned to the same period as the oldest Sanskrit - 2000 B.C. or earlier Our first alphabet developed Martynas Mazvydas in 1547. It was 23 gothic alphabet letters. The current Lithuanian alphabet was created by J. Jablonskis "Lithuanian grammar" in 1901.