12 Facts About Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.

Proto-Balto-Slavic Lithuanian language branched off directly from Proto-Indo-European, then sub-branched into Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic.

In 1864, following the January Uprising, Mikhail Muravyov, the Russian Governor General of Lithuania, banned the language in education and publishing and barred use of the Latin alphabet altogether, although books printed in Lithuanian continued to be printed across the border in East Prussia and in the United States.

The conventions of written Lithuanian language had been evolving during the 19th century, but Jablonskis, in the introduction to his Lietuviskos kalbos gramatika, was the first to formulate and expound the essential principles that were so indispensable to its later development.

Lithuanian language proposed that the two language groups were indeed a unity after the division of Indo-European, but suggested that after the two had divided into separate entities, they had posterior contact.

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Lithuanian language dialects are closely connected with ethnographical regions of Lithuania.

Standard Lithuanian language is derived mostly from Western Aukstaitian dialects, including the Eastern dialect of Lithuania Minor.

Lithuanian language is traditionally described as having nine diphthongs, ai, au, ei, eu, oi, ou, ui, ie, and uo.

In Lithuanian language, there are two grammatical genders for nouns and three genders for adjectives, pronouns, numerals and participles .

Lithuanian language has a very rich word derivation system and an array of diminutive suffixes.

The contribution of Lithuanian was influential in the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European language.

The Lithuanian government has an established language policy that encourages the development of equivalent vocabulary to replace loanwords.