R: Re: R: Re: cases (nom/acc vs sub/obj)
From: | Mangiat <mangiat@...> |
Date: | Monday, September 18, 2000, 12:57 |
Nik wrote:
> Mangiat wrote:
> > That lang seems so Latin-ish...!
>
> Yes, Lithuanian is a very conservative language, very close to the
> original PIE.
>
I know. A good reading is the 'Historical Grammar of the Lithuanian
language' at C. Babaev site. Lithuanian is really conservative: meseems, at
least this is what I think, even a little bit more than Latin (after all
even Latin's undergone a lot of mutations from PIE period)
Luca