Latvia & Lithuania: Why Are They So Close With Each Other?

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Lithuania Explained

Lithuania Explained

Жыл бұрын

In today's video, we examine why Lithuania and Latvia are so close with each other- because even though Estonia is also one of the Baltic countries, most would agree that it’s socially closer to Finland than it is to Latvia.
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@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
02:23 - here I meant to say Latvians and Lithuanians 🙈 but thanks to everyone who has tried to answer the question as it was narrated! 😆
@rampampamrampampam
@rampampamrampampam Жыл бұрын
I am Lithuanian living in Denmark, I met a lot of Latvian people working or learning here, and really one thing I can say is the bond we have. Each time I noticed there are Latvians around we instantly made some sort of connection, if its not by words its by respect and acceptance. Can't feel any of this meeting any other people.
@ines_uk
@ines_uk Жыл бұрын
I live in England for a long time and one of my two best friends here is Lithuanian.
@maxinabo
@maxinabo Ай бұрын
What about the Russian?
@torikrasovska
@torikrasovska Жыл бұрын
I feel very close to Lithuanians and I am proud of it. Language and history are definately the reasons I feel we are brother nations and I always feel at home when I visit Lietuva. 💛💚❤️
@bloodtypena
@bloodtypena Жыл бұрын
I feel very close to latvians. We are sisters and I am happy we have each other and look out for one another. When I visit Latvia I also feel like I am home. I feel happy and safe. 🇱🇹❤️🇱🇻
@DVladas
@DVladas Жыл бұрын
Latvia And Lithuania Brothers forever!!!
@ilzezeivote9136
@ilzezeivote9136 Жыл бұрын
Braļiukas are the best! ❤
@bloodtypena
@bloodtypena Жыл бұрын
🇱🇹❤️🇱🇻
@emilija1363
@emilija1363 Жыл бұрын
Mūsu brāļi vienmēr labākie 🇱🇻❤️🇱🇹
@Edzhjus
@Edzhjus Жыл бұрын
someone or something is trying to achieve 🤸🤼👫
@gamer_d
@gamer_d Жыл бұрын
Yeah!
@aismameijere-cirsa
@aismameijere-cirsa Жыл бұрын
Lithuania is a like family member to Latvia. It's kind of hard to explain. Lithuania and Estonia for Latvia is this friendly existence. It's like you feel safe being next to them. We do make jokes about each other but overall it's like family. There is respect for each others borders. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia mostly keep to themselves. So for languages - yes, lithuanian and latvian may sound similar and there are words that we can understand but for the most part we can't speak each others language.
@Rihardololz
@Rihardololz Жыл бұрын
Lithuania has cheap product exporting in and as Latvian i appreciate it.
@firepalmmy5933
@firepalmmy5933 Жыл бұрын
im Lithuanian
@opekolina5463
@opekolina5463 Жыл бұрын
True. We call Latvia our sister and Estonia our brother :)) but when somebody abroad asks, where am I from, and I say 'from Lithuania', most of them say, 'oh.. Riga, Latvia, I know, I was there' :D lithuanians visits Latvia for it's nice long beach or oldtown in Riga and buy some like Riga balsams :D
@bloodtypena
@bloodtypena Жыл бұрын
As a lithuanian I approve this message. Latvia is our sister and Estonia close cousin.
@liga3818
@liga3818 Жыл бұрын
I’m a Latvian and just came home from Lithuania. I was surprised how many Lithuanians words I was able to guess because of their similarity to Latvian. It made my stay in Vilnius very comfortable.
@BrainEclipe
@BrainEclipe Жыл бұрын
The same can be told, when we are visiting Liepaja or Ventspils. Unfortunately we have only 98 km of sea shore. You have much more and it looks you still are better in maintaining it. :)
@bloodtypena
@bloodtypena Жыл бұрын
I am lithuanian and i bought a hand cream in Latvia and I spoke with latvian sales lady and we understood eachother just fine. LT🇱🇹❤️🇱🇻LV
@alexanderiatsenko1440
@alexanderiatsenko1440 11 ай бұрын
@@bloodtypena yes, it is normal to have a good communication with each other...
@jaanisliepa
@jaanisliepa Жыл бұрын
I’m a Latvian who identifies as Baltic if I have to look at the broader region, but even in Baltic context Lithuanians are definitely our closest friends!
@bloodtypena
@bloodtypena Жыл бұрын
Hey did you know that we lithuanians and latvians our genotype is closest to estonians and finnish people. We are family us LT and LV sisters and Estonia and Finland cousins. We also influenced each others mythology and pottery art and sauna traditions.
@44Dzinis
@44Dzinis Жыл бұрын
They are or Brothers not friends
@saabw4629
@saabw4629 Жыл бұрын
Hello I'm from India . can we talk?
@alp196
@alp196 Жыл бұрын
Latvia is my dream country. Long time ago elderly Latvian Brazilian lady told me, When you see Latvia you'll never forget. She was %100 right.
@ImEpicc
@ImEpicc Жыл бұрын
Latvia & Lithuania one love fo life, bralukas
@ingad729
@ingad729 Жыл бұрын
No
@rutos7
@rutos7 Жыл бұрын
I was born in Lithuania, but I can feel connections with both countries Latvia and Estonia. They both like real family to us. We are very close with both countries
@ingad729
@ingad729 Жыл бұрын
Go to hell.
@ingunabinane2625
@ingunabinane2625 Жыл бұрын
Our brothers! Felt more like home when visiting Lithuania! 🇱🇹🥰🇱🇻
@viesite6812
@viesite6812 Жыл бұрын
I'm from Latvia and I have to say that Lithuanians are more easier to understand, make friendship and communicate. After so many team-buildings between Baltic states I have realized that Estonians tend to act more arrogant, in some way express their superiority, can't feel them emotionally, different traditions, different way how they look on things and totally different language. I have never understand this stupid joke about slow Estonians, they are fast in decision making, have clear vision and in some way little bit crazy. But these are only details, in general we support every one between Baltic states, we understand that we are small and our only power is in unity.
@nasuu94
@nasuu94 Жыл бұрын
the time i got this joke is when i was driving and there was an estonian car and he was really slow, not kidding 😆
@Fankas2000
@Fankas2000 Жыл бұрын
"I have never understand this stupid joke about slow Estonians" It's because they were the last to declare their independence from the Soviet union. Hence them being slow.
@markusmakela9380
@markusmakela9380 Жыл бұрын
what are thou talkin’ about? I’m from zemecountry ( Finnország) and 2 years thinkin’ is this joke. Estonians very quickly understand everything, faster than Finns… wait, wait, ou nou 😕, now i could.😫
@talia148
@talia148 2 ай бұрын
@@Fankas2000Kazakhstan was the last
@Fankas2000
@Fankas2000 2 ай бұрын
@@talia148 Not among the Baltic States.
@fidenemini111
@fidenemini111 Жыл бұрын
Sometimes Latvians like to say "Viena tauta divas valstis" - one nation two states. But it is more like wishful thinking. However some medieval travellers used to mention that Lets (Latvians) and Letonians (Lithuanians) speak dialects of the same language. Could be true because the languages began to split in 7th century and up to 15th century still existed transitional dialects. The best way to find out how similar our languages are is to check so called Swadesh list - the list of 100 (or 200) basic and oldest words for Baltic languages (Old Prussian, Latgalian and Samogitian also included).
@RichieLarpa
@RichieLarpa Жыл бұрын
Interesting point, it is really similar to history of Polish and Czech languages, which sounded almost the same in medieval ages, then after some time, decided to split and go their way. It is good to hear that Lithuanian & Latvian language might used the same technique to make their language similar in some aspects, yet far away in some other aspects.
@MysliusLT
@MysliusLT Жыл бұрын
"Viena tauta dvi valstybes" - That's in Lithuanian language. Very similar languages.
@RichieLarpa
@RichieLarpa Жыл бұрын
@@MysliusLT It seems to be in some areas, but I would say it's like Czech listening to Serbian talk. Krava, nož, voda, pivo or knjiga is pretty understandable for us both, but regular Czechs will get lost after hearing words like oluja, kiša, komšija, prozor or kurac. The same for you probably, when hearing Latvian govs, which is karvė or grāmatu, which is knyga in your language.
@MysliusLT
@MysliusLT Жыл бұрын
I do understand "Krava, nož, voda, pivo or knjiga" because of Russian language
@RichieLarpa
@RichieLarpa Жыл бұрын
@@MysliusLT That is correct, those our so called "general Slavic words" that are almost identical in all Slavic languages and by the way: krava = karvė voda = vanduo knjiga = knyga I do not say that it is a direct influence, but to me as a Slavic, it makes learning Lithuanian a little bit easier for me.
@archaxxx
@archaxxx Жыл бұрын
Thank you braliukai! Thank you for just being our neighbours. I can't imagine any better neighbours than you guys. Seeing the atrocities happening in the world today one could not ask for more. I wish we sometimes would be little less competitive towards each other but hey.. I kind of understand you as we have lately went ahead of you in terms of basketball:))) Kudos, love and peace to all three of our Baltic nations 🙏
@MrAugencas
@MrAugencas Жыл бұрын
Wtf are you talking about? That 2 friendly games we just had, that we lost 1st by 18, and you lost second by 30+. In what way you become "ahead" in basketball over Lithuania? Btw we love you latvians, you are brothers, but sorry, basketball is our thing, yours is hockey😉
@archaxxx
@archaxxx Жыл бұрын
@@MrAugencas I knew this would catch some hearing ears. I am just pulling your leg :) but yet I don't want to back up and suggest we see for ourselves next world cup? Cheers. If I did come so then sorry but I didn't mean to sound arrogant in any way 🌟🙏💯
@xpdemonic
@xpdemonic Жыл бұрын
I started laughing after reading this comment about basketball :) It is such a lovely friendly competition.
@giedrestankeviciene34
@giedrestankeviciene34 Жыл бұрын
Your message was so beautiful until you ruined everything 😉. But maybe you meant 3×3 basketball? Anyway, thanks for the sensible things you wrote 😀.
@Laurynas_LTU
@Laurynas_LTU Жыл бұрын
It's a great short video on the topic. I'd just like to simplify it even more for foreigners: Geopolitically, all 3 countries - EST, LVA, LTU - are grouped together because of the relatively recent shared history of the most recent XX c. Soviet (Russian) occupation. In addition, they joined the EU and NATO the same year 2004 and entered Eurozone the same decade (2010-2020). Culturally, as mentioned in the video regarding the languages, EST is closer to FIN than LTU+LVA. Similarities. If we look at the last millennium, LTU+LVA come from the Baltic tribes and share a similar language (not mutually inteligible, i.e. we can't understand each other when speaking, but some written words are intelligible). It's similar to the situation with Spanish, Portuguese and Italian languages and cultures. Differences. Religion: EST+LVA - Protestants (Lutherans), LTU - Catholics. In this regard, LTU has more in common with Catholic POL than Protestant LVA. During certain time periods LVA was occupied by Sweden, while LTU was in a Commonwealth with POL. Language similarities between LTU & LVA: Good morning - Lábas rytas (LTU) + Labrīt (Labs rīts) (LVA); Good day - Labà dienà (Lába diéna) (LTU) + Labdién (Lába diéna) (LVA) Good evening - Lábas vákaras (LTU) + Labvàkar (Lábs vàkars) (LVA) Good - Géras (Lábas) (LTU) + Lábi (LVA) 1-vienas-viens 2-du-divi 3-trys-trīs 4-keturi-četri 5-penki-pieci 6-šeši-seši 7-septyni-septini 8-aštuoni-astoni 9-devyni-devini 10-dešimt-desmit P. S. Full disclosure: I'm a Lithuanian, so there might be some inaccuracies regarding the Latvian things.
@fdr3898
@fdr3898 Жыл бұрын
Southeastern Latvia is Catholic, exactly because of PL-LT influence. It is also less Baltic German/Nordic influenced as a result of that. In some ways, the border between Central Europe and Northern Europe lies within Latvia itself.
@petereiso5415
@petereiso5415 Жыл бұрын
omfg, you oversimplified it ! XX c? Very fucking simple indeed.
@torikrasovska
@torikrasovska Жыл бұрын
@@fdr3898 the whole of Eastern Latvia is catholic, not just southeast. Unfortunately.
@elisterr9913
@elisterr9913 Жыл бұрын
The Whole of Estonia is non-religious with the exception of russian immigrants and their orthodox religions. You really see no impact of churhes in society, at all..
@fdr3898
@fdr3898 Жыл бұрын
@@elisterr9913 Can't undo centuries of culture. In fact, Estonia's lack of religion fits into the wider trend of Protestant dominated countries becoming less religious. Therefore, Estonia's lack of religion is because of its religion ;)
@briusbruk307
@briusbruk307 Жыл бұрын
You will not find a better neighbor anywhere on earth. With love from Lithuania to our Latvian brothers. Of course, we make fun of each other, maybe we get angry somewhere. e.g. Why do Lithuanians travel so slowly in Latvia :D But like in the family, everything happens. Lol. And of course best wishes to Estonia. ❤️🤓
@Felixxxxxxxxx
@Felixxxxxxxxx Жыл бұрын
My Grandmother was Lithuanian, and she lived in a Lithuanian-speaking village just south of what is today the Russia/ Lithuania border and used to be the German/Lithuanian border. The Lithuanians in Germany felt closer to Germany than Lithuania though, even though they spoke the same language as the Lithuanians. Their rules for spelling were different and Lithuanians in Germany and Lithuania, therefore, did not read each other's newspapers. She was probably the last generation of Lithuanian Germans, considering the siege of Köningsberg and the rest is history. Last time I visited the Baltic I was talking to my tour guide who was Estonian. He thought that Estonia and Latvia were the closest. Of course not linguistically but in many ways historically they have had a more similar history. Lithuania is to my knowledge the only baltic country that ever was a big empire. As a Swede, the countryside in Estonia and Lativa looks like a slightly more flat version of how it would look in Sweden, while Lithuania looks a bit more exotic. Lithuania also has Klaipeda which still to this day looks quite Prussian.
@magnus_ducatus9684
@magnus_ducatus9684 Жыл бұрын
Interestingly, Latvia once has offered Lithuania to create a joint ethnic state called “Aistija”
@rolandsarins7151
@rolandsarins7151 Жыл бұрын
Funny but it is quite correct!
@Baby_Noodles
@Baby_Noodles Жыл бұрын
Baltija would be better, don't you think so?
@fairy_mp3x793
@fairy_mp3x793 Жыл бұрын
@@Baby_Noodles i think aistija is quite ok, bcs our ancestors called themselves aisčiai, before someone renamed us to baltai :))
@simonasurbonas8107
@simonasurbonas8107 Жыл бұрын
I wish much happiness and prosperity to our lovely neighbours in the north. Greetings from Lietuva, brothers and sisters! We love you! ❤
@Asnats19
@Asnats19 Жыл бұрын
Men, I'm living in Netherland together with 10 Lithuania but I'm Latvian. Bralukas 💪 There is a lot of similarity between the languages.
@ivosarak959
@ivosarak959 Жыл бұрын
Main difference between Latvia and Lithuania is the differing history and not the shared parts. Lithuania has shared a lot of power with Poland and has been even an independent kingdom for a long time and dominating force in the region. Latvia has none of it and thus is closer to Estonia in that regards. Basically in the "dark ages" Germans, Danes, Russians, Poles ended up to area of Estonia and Latvia to take all and more and put everyone under slavery. That was the case even quite recently thus sparing Lithuania from majority of it. That gave Lithuania a national pride what is much different beast than to Latvians or Estonians.
@ivarkich1543
@ivarkich1543 Жыл бұрын
As a Latvian I can't understand Lithuanians when they are talking, but I understand pretty well written texts in Lithuanian. When travelling to Lithuania, I used to use Lithuanian tourism sites in internet in Lithuanian (not in English or Russian) although I've never learned Lithuanian. Also all necessary public information in Lithuanian on the streets of, say, Vilnius is pretty readable and understandable for me without a dictionary.
@kerstas10
@kerstas10 Жыл бұрын
If you guys talked slower I would understand you more.
@TheRytisram
@TheRytisram 3 ай бұрын
I heard that lithuanian - Samogitian dialect could help to understand latvians one anothers.....i have a friend from west lithuania which speaks in Samogitian - lithuanian dialect...he was in latvia he end up like home 😂😂😂 🇱🇹🤝🇱🇻
@VanGuard600
@VanGuard600 Жыл бұрын
Your perspective is unique in a sense. Canada and Latvia share a Hockey connection, since Latvia is the best Hockey team from Baltics. That is one reason why Canadians would have Latvia more on their minds.
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
Good point! I’m also curious how it was decided Canadian forces would be stationed in Latvia instead of another country. But it definitely reinforces the relationship between the two countries. 🇨🇦🇱🇻
@laurazablocka3696
@laurazablocka3696 Жыл бұрын
And the best fans we are :)
@politicsinanutshell8267
@politicsinanutshell8267 Жыл бұрын
@@LithuaniaExplained yesterday i watched a news piece about the Canadian troops in Latvia and one of the commanders has Latvian roots and spoke with the interviewer some Latvian and the Canadians are also building their own hockey rink in the battlegroup camp
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
Oh cool!
@smeismerissmaiseris9025
@smeismerissmaiseris9025 Жыл бұрын
@@LithuaniaExplained old goods might be a factor to perhaps, Romuva (religion), Dievturība. I mean a lot of our holidays - latvians and lithuanians are influenced by Old Baltic religion, tho these where heavely Christianizated later on.
@wilkatis
@wilkatis Жыл бұрын
I'd put it this way - LV & EE share their history, but LV & LT share their culture. As the christianitys push northwards never really got rid of the old pagan traditions in the Baltics, it can be safely assumed culture means a lot in this region, hence the close connection between them. Also I find it funny how both - latvians and lithuanians - seem to describe the other language as sounding kind of like their mixed with russian.
@biggusnippus695
@biggusnippus695 Жыл бұрын
I am Lithuanian from Samogitia region Near Latvia (40km) and I can understand some words and even read, and understand quite a bit of it even tho never really learnt it or interacted much with Latvians, even some phrases I use are weirdly similar to Latvian
@kristomarcus1505
@kristomarcus1505 Жыл бұрын
There is one sad thing I have noticed and that is that Latvians and lithuanians (seem to) think that estonians are further away than estonians feel about the other baltics. Most latvians and lithuanians I talk to/listen to think “yeah Estonia is a cool place but I’m way clocer to latvians/lithuanians”. While most estonians (seem to) think that baltics are just as close to Them as the fins. Maby it’s because estonians tend to be more reserved with theyr feelings and not show the Love as mutch Like the uralics that they are but Still to täis day. Every time I talk to a baltic I Walt them to know how mutch love we estonians actually feel deep down but don’t show. So in summary Love you baltics and be nice to eachother
@giedrestankeviciene34
@giedrestankeviciene34 Жыл бұрын
No need to worry:) As far as I noticed, Lithuanians love Estonians just as much as Latvians. Greetings to Latvia and Estonia!
@JH-pv6rd
@JH-pv6rd Жыл бұрын
We absolutely love estonians! Estonians are actually genetically closer to latvians and lithuanians than finns. Sending loads of love from Lithuania ❤️
@cezarscaune1336
@cezarscaune1336 Жыл бұрын
whether you feel closer to Estonians or Lithuanians depends on which border region you are from and whether you have Livonian (līvu) roots.
@bloodtypena
@bloodtypena Жыл бұрын
True
@andris404
@andris404 Жыл бұрын
I'm not from the Baltic States, but I've always been a fan of these cute little countries and I see them as introvert countries (if you can describe a country this way), and just as any introvert they keep close friendship with their friends and neighbors. :) Not to all of them though, because not all of their neighbors are actually friendly, unfortunately
@emilija1363
@emilija1363 Жыл бұрын
Yes, that is true. I'm Latvian and I can only agree with you 💯
@lowpoly9563
@lowpoly9563 Жыл бұрын
Because we are like shoe and shoelace, ONE IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT THE OTHER! #balticpower
@telefunkenas391
@telefunkenas391 Жыл бұрын
Im (Lithuanian), who had chance to live with Latvians for 5 days. I can say that our languages are different but we have some words that sounds similar and as Samogitian I understood even more words.
@LatvianTanker
@LatvianTanker Жыл бұрын
As a Latvian I feel overall bigger connection with Estonians historically, all the Livonian states and so on united us more then with Lithuanians I'd say, but, of course Lithuanians being our language brothers they are just as important to Latvia as Estonia. Latvia is like the uniting bridge between Estonia and Lithuania. As for languages, Latvians and Estonians don't really understand each other, but there's quite many shared words as one of languages that formed Latvia is Livonian, a Finnic language just like Estonian. It's also kind of hard to understand Lithuanian but it's possible, overall it feels more Slavic as Latvian has been quite Germanized over the past with German and Swedish influence.
@RichieLarpa
@RichieLarpa Жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, I would say that Latvian had some bigger Slavic influence, because as a speaker of many Slavic languages, I have recognized many words in Latvian, that showed a dangerous resemblance, yet Lithuanian also has some of those words, but not so many. When I read "visi cilvēki" on Wikipedia, it was a nice surprise for me, yet I still need to say that I learn only Lithuanian basics and no Latvian at all, so you are free to correct me.
@sakkijarvenpolkka2090
@sakkijarvenpolkka2090 Жыл бұрын
Precisely!
@elisterr9913
@elisterr9913 Жыл бұрын
To understand these subject you'd really have to go back way longer than this video covers. To the year 500 and beyond. So going back to Livonian times is a great start. :) Then again. Latvian/Lithuanian are an early branch of slavic cultures (that all began in the today's Ukraine). At the same time, Estonian/Finnish tribes dominated north-Latvia, Estonia, Finland and 100-200km east of St Petersburg. In essence, before the germanic rulers arrived there was not much common between Latvians and Estonians but nor did we have a problem with each other..... and the rest can be described as "Seven hundred years of slavery". And I suppose, this has unified us more than anything else.
@LukasSRR
@LukasSRR Жыл бұрын
Latvia germanised? Tell us whats the word in latvian for school? And also hows is written number four in latvian?
@Tramigais
@Tramigais Жыл бұрын
@@LukasSRR latvian writing from 17 century. the manne moke, edey manne moke abedus, dser nu manne assin, cur the assine Sunje naket nu un dserret manne assin, essem es to pelnis? Ka es bus pe krustite bassnitz stawet.. this is not germanisation? I as latvian uderstand not more then 20% of this ..
@Actual_Achilles
@Actual_Achilles Жыл бұрын
Me as a Lithuanian I can say that I visit Latvia almost every year and there is a joke that if u put a Lithuanian and a Latvian in a room, they could communicate with each other I have a few Latvian friends. And I think that we have similar traditions and architecture.
@ernestbatiy1070
@ernestbatiy1070 Жыл бұрын
Because Lithuania is our best friend. We fought crusades and endured wars side by side. Forest Brothers with all 3 nations
@enemy1191
@enemy1191 Жыл бұрын
About that history, first part not really, second part yes. Latvians and Lithuanians had same Pagan history before Northern Crusades. But after those, Latvians and Estonians fell to the German Crusaders, but Lithuanians had their freedom and massive empire, and later they went hand to hand with Polish. And at some points parts of Latvia and Estonia were controlled by Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania/Poland. But then Russian Empire came and took all 3 under it. That's where shared history came back for Latvia and Lithuania (and new for Lithuania and Estonia). Russian Empire, German Empire did some stuff too, Lenin Soviets, Freedom, Stalin Soviets, Nazis, Stalin Soviets again, and then all other Soviet years until the end of Soviet Union, Freedom and present day. (all this kind of simplified)
@tuams
@tuams Жыл бұрын
Latvian here. Can't understand anything that Estonians say but can understand some things that Lithuanians say. Lithuania, due to geography, is the importer for Baltics from EU but Estonia went the tech way and wants to integrate with the more advanced Scandinavian countries. Thanks for making the video!
@nuzodziu
@nuzodziu Жыл бұрын
moose is "briedis" , deer is "elnias " in lithuanian, and moose is "alnis" and deer is "brieži" in latvian. feel the difference :)?
@physsnake
@physsnake Жыл бұрын
it's reverse
@OreMan
@OreMan Жыл бұрын
Actually, "brieži" is the plural form for deer in Latvian. In singular, it's exactly the same as moose in Lithuanian - "briedis".
@zin.nesis1
@zin.nesis1 Жыл бұрын
Oh is it, ha ha. Labais
@martinsancitis7566
@martinsancitis7566 Жыл бұрын
And "sound" in lithuanian is "garsas", but in latvian it is "skaņa". "Taste", however, in lithuanian is "skonis", but in latvian - "garša". So these things are kinda reversed as well.
@BrainEclipe
@BrainEclipe Жыл бұрын
@@martinsancitis7566 You can add other oddities like sky - debesis (Lat), dangus (Lit) and debesis(Lit) is cloud. Blue is zils (Lat) and mėlyna (Lit), but melns (Lat) is juoda (Lit), which means black and žilas (Lit) means gray heared, when speaking about hair color. Dragon is pūķis (Lat), but pūkas (Lit) is fuzz/fluffy and Pukis is quite common name for a cute kitten and for a dragon we either use drakonas or slibinas.
@carlsontravelsandwildlife
@carlsontravelsandwildlife Жыл бұрын
Interesting video! I have been to Riga, Latvia (and Tallinn,Estonia) but have not made it to Lithuania yet - maybe next time!🙂 Thanks for sharing!!
@beisiknikneimas
@beisiknikneimas Жыл бұрын
Hey, just found your channel and ur vids are amazing! Informative, well edited, not too long, good job! Maybe the target audience is not the biggest one, but you're doing great, keep it up! :) P.s. i'm lithuanian:)
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the supportive note! I’m excited to grow the channel 😁
@glowy258
@glowy258 Жыл бұрын
Latvian sounds like a more modern version of lithuanian. As a latvian I can understand very little when someone speaks lithuanian, but lithuanians can understand latvians quite well.
@fidenemini111
@fidenemini111 Жыл бұрын
And more Latvians speak Lithuanians than vice versa. To me as Lithuanian it is shameful. I knotw some Latvian but not enough to have a decent conversation. I promise to fix this. To my fellow Lithuanians I want to offer two Latvian folk songs which can be easier understand: Es izjāju prūšu zemi (sung by Ceiruleits especially warms my heart) and Veļu upe pārplūdus` by SKANDINIEKI - exceptionaly good vid on Baltų folkloras channel. Latvieši, jūs esat mūsu brāļi un māsas. Mēs jūs mīlam, un tas ir mūžīgi!
@lattenoisette
@lattenoisette Жыл бұрын
As a Lithuanian, when I hear Latvian, I always think it’s German first but then I realise that the words aren’t German at all. Both languages sound very different I think.
@giedres797
@giedres797 Жыл бұрын
Because Lithuanian language is a lot older 😉
@psy-lion
@psy-lion Жыл бұрын
My mom is Latvian and father Lithuanian :D
@hextorus5149
@hextorus5149 Жыл бұрын
the one time ive been to latvia as a lithuanian, i definetly understood the things they said, altough with a bit of trouble
@montis4792
@montis4792 Жыл бұрын
Brothers and sisters 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 Unfortunately, I never met a Latvian =( 😀
@lazehistory
@lazehistory Жыл бұрын
What's up Lithuania explains it so cool few weeks ago that you had 1k subscribers but now you have 2k subscribers
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
Thank you - yes it’s very cool 😁
@kolasillers7776
@kolasillers7776 Жыл бұрын
Good video brother.
@gabriele5393
@gabriele5393 Жыл бұрын
This region had huge influence from foreigners regarding food for ages (esp. German and Italian and Scandinavian). I think it would be a fair point to note that potatoes [and pork] became such a huge influence in region do to famine like situations, and since these too are easy to grow and makes you full for ours- kinda got stuck with it :D Regarding language: a samogitian (žemaitis, a border region) is able to understand both languages okey-ish. Me, a city person, barely few words :(
@elena-ge9ff
@elena-ge9ff Жыл бұрын
language wise: i speak both latvian and lithuanian fluently (my dad is latvian and my mother is lithuanian) and i still sometimes think im listening to the same language but just sometimes 'weirder' hahaha
@thecat2415
@thecat2415 Жыл бұрын
I think we all care for each other. I'm latvian and I don't feel that we have established closer connection to lithuanians than estonians. As far as I know, we love them both, but, yes, the language is more similar to lithuanian.
@Adrian-zn1eu
@Adrian-zn1eu Жыл бұрын
Thanks for great introduction into my brothers relations. If anyone see this can you please answer with a explication of your relations? I’m a Pole but intrigued with this companionship during the centuries. Thanks and greetings from Poland ❤️🔥
@ilzezeivote9136
@ilzezeivote9136 Жыл бұрын
I am so sad that we Latvians are not able to talk to Lithuanians each in his own language, because we DO NOT understand each other. Not like Norwegians and Sweeds or Belarussians and Ukrainians, for instance. They simply communicate each in his own language and understand each other perfectly. Our two languages - only Balt languages left - are too different from each other. :(
@udusdusu6246
@udusdusu6246 Жыл бұрын
when you look at latvian and lithuanian languages theyre similar but not enough so we can talk to each other
@zzap4922
@zzap4922 Жыл бұрын
Lithuanian grammar is more conservative and it shares many words with Polish as they developed together (not influenced each other). Latvian grammar and way of speaking is heavily influenced by Livonian and Russian grammar. There are similar words between those languages too. Biggest example is the softness sound in Latvian and Lithuanian. Lithuania, uses the letter i for softness (Seniai - like Russians would write сеньаи, and the Latvian alphabet would write it - seņai). Latvia uses the symbol , to indicate softness on the letter.
@deividasnavickas
@deividasnavickas Жыл бұрын
BRuh. isvardink zodzius, kurie ''kartu dalijamasi'' su lenkais, KURIE NERA kile is lotynu ar anglu leksikos? Be to, Senai ir Seniai yra skirtingai naudojami zodziai: senai yra būdo prieveiksmis, seniai - laiko prieveiksmis.
@lunarmothcat
@lunarmothcat Жыл бұрын
@@deividasnavickas 'Miestas' (city/town) would be good example. Originated from Slavic word 'mesto' (not sure about spelling) meaning 'place'
@zzap4922
@zzap4922 Жыл бұрын
@@deividasnavickas lotynų ar anglų leksikos?? 😂💀 Visi, nes tai indoeuropiečių kalbos P.S. mėnesių pavadinimai tau pradžiai ;)
@deividasnavickas
@deividasnavickas Жыл бұрын
@@zzap4922 menesiu pavadinimai? Tiksliau pavardink, nes be Gruodzio nematau panasiu skambaciu ir net jai ir panasiai skamba ar turi ta pacia kilmes prasme?
@artursbondars7789
@artursbondars7789 Жыл бұрын
I disagree, that Latvian is heavily influenced by Livonian and Russian, of course there are some dialect variations with common features, but thous aren't main language variations. There are also archaic features found only in Latvian, not Lithuanian. Personally to me Lithuanian sounds more Slavic. Also Slavic languages was used as state languages in Grand duchy and Commonwealth.
@JesoTV
@JesoTV Жыл бұрын
To be quite frank, both Lithuanians and Latvians share some amount of similar words with each other, but they are mostly simple, easy-to-remember and pronounce words. But when it comes to anything more sophisticated, such as complex sentences, the language from either perspective sounds quite foreign to our ears. That is largely due to the fact that the phonetic system of both languages or obviously very different. In terms of Estonian, we share very few similar bonds when it comes to the language use.
@chaireater4209
@chaireater4209 Жыл бұрын
I listened to a podcast that had a Linguist who knew Latvian and Lithuanian and she said that most words are very similar. It is simply learning the difference between how words are pronounced (Each language basically thinks the other has a lisp) and from then on, you basically know most of the language if you speak the other. Latvian has influence from Uralic and germanic languages (Such as Estonian, Livonian, and German )and Lithuanian has more influence from Slavic languages (Such as Polish). Both are influenced by Russian aswell.These are the main differences, but other than that, with some difficulty, It is possible to understand the general meaning of whatever one language has written or said by the other.
@eriksraciks9003
@eriksraciks9003 Жыл бұрын
You asked about if Latvians can understand Estonians. We can not in general. But there are some similar words becouse huge part of Latvia once was home of another Fin-Hungarian language nation Leevi (Līvi) or people of sand. So some words in Latvian is close to Estonian, for example Leevi "Ranki" Estonian "Ringi" Latvian older version "Ranka" modern version "Riņķis" means circle. There are multiple places still having old Leevi tribe names like city Ikšķile in Estonian it would be like Üksküla meaning one village.
@itsonepixel
@itsonepixel Жыл бұрын
As a Lithuanian, I can't really understand Latvian besides of some simple and similar words. I find the language quite funny, though.
@drixcel2741
@drixcel2741 Жыл бұрын
Latvian definitely sounds funny to Lithuanians, I always wonder if it's the same the other way around
@zzap4922
@zzap4922 Жыл бұрын
@@drixcel2741 it is. I had discussed this for an entire week with my Latvian friends, comparing the languages and etc.
@UhOhUmm
@UhOhUmm Жыл бұрын
Briedis - Alnis Elnias - Briedis is the funniest shit and I would love to travel back in history to the point where those two words got switched between Lithuanian and Latvian. They also write "GRŪST" on doors, I giggle every time.
@zzap4922
@zzap4922 Жыл бұрын
@@UhOhUmm grūst and vilkt 😂
@RichieLarpa
@RichieLarpa Жыл бұрын
As Czechs, we share really similar phenomenon with Polish people. The languages looked and sounded almost the same in medieval ages, but then we both decided to go our way to make our languages more unique. One example of all, word "czerstwy" vs "čerstvý": Polish "czerstwy chleb" means "stale bread", but Czech "čerstvý chléb" means "fresh bread". Fresh in Polish language is "świeży", which I am sure Lithuanians will find interesting.
@joinz8544
@joinz8544 Жыл бұрын
As a Lithuanian, I've always felt wayyyy closer to Latvia than Estonia. I always saw Latvia as our brothers, every time I'd meet a Latvian in any sort of video game, my first words would be "BRALIUKAS" (brother in Latvian). Estonia is a cool country too though, but I have to point something out - it's either just me, or they just always seem to be really proud of them being a bit better in terms of economy than us and sometimes it seems like they're trying to flex almost. I'm not talking about politics or something, I'm talking about just speaking with Estonians over the internet. It's kind of annoying sometimes :D But it might just be my experience, I don't know. So don't take this too personally Estonians, you're still really great :D
@jurgenoopkaup9328
@jurgenoopkaup9328 Жыл бұрын
In Estonia media creates image than Estonia is quite succesful country in terms of economy which is not true but they keep this illusion alive and this is also true some estonians think they are bit better than latvians, lithuanians. Of course its not common understanding but sometimes you can listen this kind of attitude. But this is only peoples external impression not who they really are.
@joinz8544
@joinz8544 Жыл бұрын
@@jurgenoopkaup9328, the problem is that they think that since their economy is slightly better that they're automatically better than us in every way. in reality Lithuanians for example have things to be proud of, too. We're the most patriotic, we didn't let russians rusify us as easily, our partizan wars happened for the longest just to name a few. But just because of that I don't see my country being better than theirs, or any other. What I'm trying to say is that each one of the Baltic countries has something to be really proud of, but that doesn't make them better than the other Baltic countries.
@jurgenoopkaup9328
@jurgenoopkaup9328 Жыл бұрын
@@joinz8544 Of course you are right. All people are same whatever you have or what country you are living. As an estonian I´m not justify estonians but just said why they think like this.
@ragnarlaine4065
@ragnarlaine4065 Жыл бұрын
@@joinz8544 Hi there from Estland. I do not think Estland is better than Latvia or Lithuania but is different. First of all, only Latvians and Lithuanians are Baltic people, Estonians are Finnic people, like Finns. So it makes more sense to leave term Baltic countries to 🇱🇻Latvia and 🇱🇹Lithuania and group 🇫🇮Finland and 🇪🇪 Estland as Finnic countries. Furthermore, if Finns and Saamis are both considered Nordic, why are not Estonians? Second of all, Estland has a shared history and culture with Finland, Sweden and Denmark. So it makes sense to consider Estonians as Finnic and Nordic, so Nordic countries would be consist of Scandinavian🇸🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴🇮🇸 and Finnic countries🇫🇮🇪🇪
@joinz8544
@joinz8544 Жыл бұрын
@@ragnarlaine4065, I mean, you are quite literally a Baltic country, you might not be as close to Lithuanians as Latvians are, but you still are Baltic. Now I'm not going to disagree with you on you also being a Finnic country, I just don't know enough about that to agree or disagree, you might as well be that, but you still are Baltic. And idk why we're talking about it lol.
@xs6601
@xs6601 Жыл бұрын
man u are so underrated,keep up the awesome work!
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@nikotinslv
@nikotinslv Жыл бұрын
In Latvia we have more than 5 different dialects in each region, we sometimes can't understand other Latvians.
@naurisss
@naurisss Жыл бұрын
Regarding the linguistic part - no Latvian and Lithuanian are not mutually intelligible at all. For those who are wondering. 1) Baltic languages are false friends languages, meaning that most of our cognate words, have different meanings. For example Lithuanians say "I want" ("Aš noriu"), while in Latvian that sounds like "I swallowed" ("Es noriju"), or how we say Spalva ("feather, bodyhair") and they say Spalva ("colour") and there are plenty of more examples. But again, that can change, because we always stress the first syllable and they don't. 2) I would presume that If most of us would not know Russian, then this understanding of Lithuanian would be way lower, because many of those words that I don't know, I can pick up from Russian to understand like - Sodas, Mėsa, Sūnus, Grybas, Slyva etc. 3) Finnic influence. I know couple of Finns in Latvia, and Finnish often sounds to me like gibberish Latvian (Many very similar words by sound and not by meaning) - Juosta ("to run") and our Josta ("belt"), or Vasara ("hammer") and our Vasara ("summer"), Nauris ("turnip") and Nauris (my name). And apart from that many of our important words are Finnic loans - Vai ("or"), Maksāt ("to pay"), Puika, Puisis ("boy"), Sēne ("mushroom"), Māja ("house, home"), Kāzas ("wedding"), Laulība ("marriage"), Vajag ("need"), Puķe ("flower"). And also a great part of Latvian swearwords are Finnic loans actually, but I presume I cannot post them in here. So we are kind of standing in the middle, having a mental breakdown, and crying, because we do not understand anyone. Overall, I must say that even though I do not understand Lithuanian almost completely, when I hear It, It gives this warm feeling that it's something similar, known and safe. I don't know how to explain that. And with Estonian - I think that during soviet times our parents for some reason, got the idea that they are strangers or something, but again, I have a very similar feeling towards them, as much as I do for Lithuanians...
@240pixel
@240pixel Жыл бұрын
There are some shared or similar words between latvian and lithuanian but not enough to be understandable.
@amyz360z
@amyz360z Жыл бұрын
Well, if you are drunk enough...
@vensroofcat6415
@vensroofcat6415 Жыл бұрын
LV&LT are brothers. Or sisters for that matter. Well maybe cousins by now. We have fought common enemies side by side as far back as 1236. And while history has taken different paths over the centuries, both countries are obviously still neighbours. So are the people and we value our roots and culture. It does indeed feel like a family if a nation can have one. And then common history has made us even closer than plain neighbours to Estonians as well. To faster recover what was lost during soviet time Estonians targeted their (bigger) brother Finland while Lithuanians stick to their history with Poland. Nevertheless we all steer in the same direction of one Europe, started on the same spot and share rather nordic qualities as societies. Like we all have had elected female leaders by now. Historically during a long winter you couldn't survive with a plain hunting/gatherer skill. Nor alone. Together stronger. And not just that. The North remembers :)
@evieakaazrael4616
@evieakaazrael4616 Жыл бұрын
As a Latvian 🇱🇻 I struggle to understand most of Lithuanian 🇱🇹 but I can discern some intent and verb/noun forms
@algijura
@algijura 8 күн бұрын
have had chance to work in Riga all summer.. And tell you I did not feel at all I am not at Home. From food and 🍺 and People felt like I went just different place in Lithuania ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ always thinking as that time was the best time spent “abroad “ in My Life And Estonia too.Beautiful country warm people!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@piiluja
@piiluja 10 ай бұрын
Estonian here. Although Finland has similar language, a lot Estonians work in Finland, and a lot Finns buy beer from Estonia, and among European capitals shortest distance is between Tallinn and Helsinki, we share with Latvians almost 100% of our culture and history. Only difference is that we abandoned christian churches and turned their towers to wifi access points, to worship our new master, God of Internet. Estonian and Latvian languages are from completely different fairy tales indeed, but there are similarities as well: stress on first syllable, long vowels and German loanwords.
@peeterpaanifloot3176
@peeterpaanifloot3176 Жыл бұрын
Hi everybody I'm Estonia but I can say that Estonia is friends with finland and Latvia and lithuania but the most still the finland but we are friend with others still ( not Russia)
@RecoveringMoth
@RecoveringMoth Жыл бұрын
Latvia: Family member who’s obsessed with potatoes Lithuania: Maybe the only normal one here Estonia: The one who wants to join another family
@mariusrutkaus
@mariusrutkaus Жыл бұрын
Summer solstice (st. John's day) celebration is shared between Lithuania and Latvia, latvians are even more into this
@volvogoodtruck1117
@volvogoodtruck1117 Жыл бұрын
For me, an Estonian, Lithuanian is way different, but the Latvian language sometimes sound very similar. I don't know how, or why - but yeah, that's my experience.
@ivarkich1543
@ivarkich1543 Жыл бұрын
It's because of different accentology. In the Lithuanian language accents/stresses are floating to various syllables while in Latvian the first syllable is stressed almost always like in Estonian.
@fidenemini111
@fidenemini111 Жыл бұрын
@@ivarkich1543 Yep! I believe it is the influence of Livonian language, or even of some other extinct Finnic languages ( about which I do not know) native to Latvia. Old Curronian was strongly influenced by Finnic, and they carried this trend to Samogitians with whom they started to mix since 12 century or even earlier.
@wernerlastt6917
@wernerlastt6917 2 ай бұрын
There are quit a few similar words in Latvian and Estonian, Perhaps borrowed by us from the Līvi. In northern Courland we do speak a dialect that has only one genrus- like Estonian. And- we were for centuries in the same country- Livonia, with all the consequences- We are genetically closer to Estonians than to Lithuanians. And the houses have names in Latvia and Estonia only.....
@andriusambrutis343
@andriusambrutis343 Жыл бұрын
I think it's because of Baltic tribes, In battle of Durbe Prussian, Latvian and Estonian tribes rebeled against Crusaders and helped Samogitians (one of Lithuanian tribes) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Durbe so that kinda shows that they had good relations even back in 13th c. After that same unified teritory, similar history and cultural factors made Lithuania and Latvia like brothers (or sisters).
@lime3612
@lime3612 5 ай бұрын
I am from Latvia, and I can say that various words from our language are really similar and even the same, even the name of our country is the same in each language
@ben-taobeneton3945
@ben-taobeneton3945 Жыл бұрын
Two things that unite use: 1) Language roots 2) HIstory ----- Really good video. Well explained in 4 minutes :)
@MysliusLT
@MysliusLT Жыл бұрын
If not for a different language I'm pretty sure we would've ended up forming a single country.
@janka4820
@janka4820 Жыл бұрын
as a latvian lithuanian sounds like older latvian if i pay close attention i can kinda understand what they're on about but there are a few words which i have no idea
@giedres797
@giedres797 Жыл бұрын
Yes, and one of the reasons is that Lithuanian language is older 😊
@martinsancitis7566
@martinsancitis7566 Жыл бұрын
As a latvian I can totally agree that the joke about two creepy twins who want to play with Estonia feels kinda other way around. Not that I have something against estonians, but they feel more like scandinavians imo.
@TheRytisram
@TheRytisram 3 ай бұрын
Lithuanian without latvia is like latvians without lithuania....lost twin sibling 🇱🇹🤝🇱🇻
@vitakinkere6272
@vitakinkere6272 Жыл бұрын
I'm Latvian:) Even tho i know Estonian language better then Lithaunian in august i'm gonna go to Lithaunia.
@MostIntelligentMan
@MostIntelligentMan Жыл бұрын
love our latvian brothers! from lithuania! they do speak similar, it sounds so funny, like comedy lithuanian, like if someone spoke caricature english, kinda like scottish? we cant fluently understand, but a lot of words are understandable, i love estonia too as we all are 3 baltic small kids, the only bitter pill is that they have a lot of russians while lithuania thank god managed have them much less and while before foreign people would look weird at me when i would express massive hatred towards russians, now with ukraine events i hope people will understand me better
@justinassobieskis
@justinassobieskis Жыл бұрын
Lietuviai ir latviai -PAGONYS :D
@KraccBaccSuporter
@KraccBaccSuporter Жыл бұрын
As a Latvian I understand some of simple Lithuanian words. But you can’t compare them like you can’t compare Dutch and German
@simaskaciusis3246
@simaskaciusis3246 Жыл бұрын
as a lithuanian I can understand the context of what Latvians are talking. We have some very similar words and both languages have a very similar sound signature in my oppinion. Honestly everytime I hear Latvians speaking I think that the're just drunk lithuanians or something. I think if you put a lithuanian and a latvian in one room they could communicate on a basic level but not much more. But I haven't tried to talk to a latvian before so that's just an oppinion :D
@janiszvejnieks2614
@janiszvejnieks2614 Жыл бұрын
"Piedzērušies lietuvieši", - axxaxā! Super. :)))))
@sahnu1372
@sahnu1372 Жыл бұрын
Latvia and it's great love for potatoes - I hear it from foreigners from time to time, but never from locals. We have no some special jokes about potatoes (as foreigners sometimes assume), etc., so it surprises me every time when somebody, say, from America, points it out as something characteristic for our region. Well, we eat potatoes quite a lot, but it has no any special or sacred meaning for us, afaik. :D
@rinkairiozuki7245
@rinkairiozuki7245 Жыл бұрын
Once i worked with Latvian as a lithuanian, and we had BBQ at his place. When he speak Latvian to his family you can kind of understand what he is speaking about. like 40% of words are similar. That's how close they are
@nasuu94
@nasuu94 Жыл бұрын
Lithuanian ans Latvian languages are similar if you compare them word to word, but we cannot really understand eachother in whole sentences, just some words
@guygartery8746
@guygartery8746 Жыл бұрын
Confusion with them both starting with L and ending in A. I can find that confusing as well. But what REALLY gets me way more is... Monaco & Morocco
@Foxtina88
@Foxtina88 Жыл бұрын
Latvian for me is like hearing Lithuanian without understanding the words, dialect sounds very similar.
@Puzuzu
@Puzuzu Жыл бұрын
Same here Lithuanian sounds like Latvian but you cant understand except for few words here and there. Also Lithuanians when i hang out with Lithuanians they always remind me that my name means "drunk" :DD my name is Ģirts and they associate it with girtas >.>
@Foxtina88
@Foxtina88 Жыл бұрын
@@Puzuzu It does sound like "drunk" :DD
@OreMan
@OreMan Жыл бұрын
If you think the names of our two countries are too similar in English, what should the Spanish speaking world say - Letonia and Lituania... Or in Italian - Lettonia and Lituania...
@arturasandriusaitis8832
@arturasandriusaitis8832 Жыл бұрын
GDP per capita in PPP (Eurostat December, 2021): Czechia - 91% from the EU average; Slovenia - 90% Lithuania - 88% Cyprus - 88% Estonia - 87% Spain - 84% Poland - 77% Hungary - 76% Portugal - 74% Romania - 73% Latvia - 71% Croatia - 70% Slovakia - 68% Greece - 65% Bulgaria - 55%
@wookyfeet1416
@wookyfeet1416 3 ай бұрын
Going to Latvia as a lithuanian feels like a dream, its so familiar yet you cant read the signs! when people talk you can start to understand them then wonder if they switched to orkish midway into the chat.....similar but makes a U-turn fast
@markaslazarevas1835
@markaslazarevas1835 Жыл бұрын
Lithuanian and latvian language have one (maybe more) almost identical word "brolis" in lithuanian and "brālis" in latvian, which mean in english "brother"
@RichieLarpa
@RichieLarpa Жыл бұрын
There is definitely more, I do not speak Latvian or Lithuanian fluently, but I have picked up some words, according to my research. Those are my picks from Lithuanian, which I think are similar, but feel free to correct me: baltos, visi, savo, alaus, miltai, vandens, bažnyčia, skaičiuoti, valstybė....
@markaslazarevas1835
@markaslazarevas1835 Жыл бұрын
@@RichieLarpa Thats true. I'm lithuanian and I only knew one word of brother
@mrstranger33
@mrstranger33 8 ай бұрын
anyway we love Estonia :) 🥰LT💛💚❤LV❤🤍❤EST💙🖤🤍
@kolasillers7776
@kolasillers7776 Жыл бұрын
1:51- my town Kuldiga.
@rihardag
@rihardag Жыл бұрын
Jaj video about homieland Sveiks ko dari?
@tomaspoliksa5168
@tomaspoliksa5168 Жыл бұрын
As a Lithuanian I poorly understand Latvian language
@GreenOrange755
@GreenOrange755 Жыл бұрын
Yes i am Lithuanian and yes i agree that our languages are indeed very similar to each other. For example in Lithuanian labas means ''hello'' and in Latvian labs means the same thing. And there are many more similarities that i know of but i can't name all of them right now so i think it's safe to say that both we Lithuanians and they Latvians can agree that we shared a laugh when windows vista came out bcuz vista means ''chicken'' in both languages, so should i say Windows Vista or should i say Windows Chicken?
@fidenemini111
@fidenemini111 Жыл бұрын
Actually initial meaning is "good" (in Lithuanian as well). We say "laba diena", Latvians say "labdien". For hello both languages have "sveiki".
@andriuscybas7
@andriuscybas7 Жыл бұрын
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@arisfalcon7326
@arisfalcon7326 Жыл бұрын
As a Lithuanian i can say that we some what understand what Latvians are saying and can make out what they are saying
@juozaskrusna4205
@juozaskrusna4205 Жыл бұрын
kas tai "mans bralis iet uz darbu" un "vina masa gaja uz majam"?
@glambor1
@glambor1 Жыл бұрын
basically, around 1000 yrs ago we were the same tribe. this is what different influences and borders do to the language and culture (like Australian, UK, US, Canadian English).
@arturasnesakysiu1684
@arturasnesakysiu1684 Жыл бұрын
Im Lithuanian you missed the most important thing. Lithuania Latvia Estonia we are baltic countries. We thing about each other not as bffs ,but as brothers and sisters. Estonians are same to us as Latvians. If they go to war we will also. Its hard to explain. Simply estonian language sound more north like i could say.
@streips
@streips Жыл бұрын
Libya and Liberia also start with L and end with A. I don't think that's the main source of confusion. As to the languages, I grew up in Chicago being taught that if you spoke Latvian, you could understand Lithuanian. Already as an adult and working at the American Latvian Association, I attended a Lithuanian event in DC, and I'm here to tell you that ain't true at all. There are lots of similarities -- Latvians say "labdien" and Lithuanians say "labas dienas" for "hello." But they are different. Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language, not just Finnish, but also Hungarian being from the same roots. Thanks for the video!
@a.g.9360
@a.g.9360 Жыл бұрын
Lithuania and Latvia should be one country
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