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From: dallison@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (David Allison)
Subject: Re: Roots of Lithuanian language ?
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Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 09:00:12 GMT
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Re: Roots of Lithuanian language ?
> 
clary@sesostris.meteo.fr (CLARY Olivier)
> 22 May 1995 12:33:02 GMT
> CNRM/Meteo-France, Toulouse
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> <1995May20.141001@uctvms.uct.ac.za> <D8xsM3.n52@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <D8xsM3.n52@midway.uchicago.edu> deb5@midway.uchicago.edu 
writes:
> >Lituanian is generally considered the most conservative Indo-European
> >language of Europe (i.e. the one that has changed the least over 
time), [...]
> Are there more conservative living Indo-European languages out of 
Europe?
> (India?)
> -- Olivier

No.  In the modern Indo-Iranian languages he loss of noun cases and the 
neuter gender is similar to the loss in modern Romance languages and the 
loss of verb forms, with the resulting use of compound forms, is similar 
to the loss in modern Germanic languages. 

-- David Allison
