Re: Uusisuom's influences

Ray wrote:
> >>Lithuanian = highly prized for its Indo - European roots. Many of its
>words
> >>can be traced back to ancient India and the Sanskrit language.
> >
> >Traced back to IE, surely; but Sanskrit?
>
>Of course not.  The vocab of Lithuanian can no more be traced back to
>ancient India than can the vocab of English or Welsh.  Lithuanian, nearly
>all the languages of Europe (Saami, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian & Basque
>are AFAIK the only exceptions)
We-ell, there's a whole lot of tiny Uralic langs - Ingrian, Votian,
Udmurtian, Mari, Komi etc - plus Kalmyk (Mongolian), a bunch of Turkic langs
- Turkish, Tatar, Crimean Tatar, Kazakh, etc - and Maltese. I'm probably
forgetting something too.

>, modern Persian, Pashtoo (Afganistan) and
>the languages of northern India & Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, are all
>ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European.  Lithuanian just happens to
>have changed less than, say, English, Welsh, modern Persian or Urdu.
                                                          Andreas
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