Together with Latvian, Lithuanian is part of the Baltic language family. It is the official language of Lithuania and has approximately 3.5 million speakers. It is written with the Latin alphabet, supplemented with a number of special letters: Ą, Č, Ę, Ė, Į, Š, Ų, Ū, and Ž. The language belongs to the Indo-European language group and is one of the two remaining Baltic languages. Linguist consider Lithuanian to be the most archaic of all living Indo-European languages, because the language has undergone little change over the past thousands of years and is therefore closest to Proto-Indo-European (the original Indo-European language) out of all Indo-European languages.

Lithuanian is kind of an ancient language

Lithuanian is of great importance to historical linguistics. As a result of its constancy, Lithuanian shows similarities to almost all other Indo-European languages, however different those languages might be from each other. These similarities appear to especially concern languages like Sanskrit, of which very old writings have been preserved. By comparing old and archaic languages, you are basically looking over the shoulders of people spreading throughout the world in history. You can’t get any closer to the original language they spoke than this.

How Lithuanian survived

During the Russian period, Lithuanian was forbidden, but it was able to survive because the language was also spoken in large parts of East Prussia. In order to secretly support the Lithuanian language, Lithuanian books were smuggled to Lithuania from Prussia. Lithuanian survived with Prussian help, but the Lithuanian-related Old Prussian did not receive the same help and died out in the early 18th century.

Language and culture

Language and culture are inextricably linked; therefore, the best way to address different target groups differs from culture to culture. That is why we like working with in-country translators; in this case, Lithuanian translators who live in Lithuania and are native speakers of Lithuanian. Translators whose language and culture runs through their veins, so to speak. Therefore, we work with different translators everywhere.

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