Lithuanian best preserves the archaic features of Proto-Indo-European.
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Reference material notes that Lithuanian is widely regarded as the most conservative among surviving Indo-European languages for retaining archaic Proto-Indo-European features.
aspects, consider it to be the most conservative of the existing Indo-European languages, retaining features of the Proto-Indo-European language that have otherwise
Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba, pronounced [lʲiəˈtʊvʲuː kɐɫˈbɐ]) is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are approximately 2.8 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 1.5 million speakers
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"Thus it would seem that the Lithuanians have the best claim to represent the primitive Aryan race, as their language exhibits fewer of those…