native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 1 million speakers elsewhere. Around half a million inhabitants of Lithuania of non-Lithuanian background...
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elements in Lithuanian society, meaning that the number of Lithuanian language-speakers decreased with Polonization in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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Kojalavičius-Vijūkas wrote first printed Lithuanian history Historia Lithuania. Lithuanian literary works in the Lithuanian language started being first published...
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of Lithuanian ethnic tribes ('susilieti, lietis' means to unite and the word 'lietuva' means something which has been united). The primary Lithuanian state...
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civil law, canon law, and tradition. Lithuanian names always follow the rules of the Lithuanian language. Lithuanian male names have preserved the Indo-European...
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speaking Lithuanian and Ruthenian, and was able to communicate in the Samogitian dialect of the Lithuanian language. The Lithuanian language was still...
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Lithuanian grammar retains many archaic features from Proto-Balto-Slavic that have been lost in other Balto-Slavic languages. Lithuanian nouns are classified...
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The Lithuanian nobility (Lithuanian: bajorija) or szlachta of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės šlėkta, Polish:...
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Duchy's documents, the Lithuanian Metrica, the Lithuanian Chronicles and the Statutes of Lithuania, were all written in that language. German, Jewish and...
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15th to 18th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in East Slavic regions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Regional distribution of those...
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Lithuanian orthography employs a Latin-script alphabet of 32 letters, two of which denote sounds not native to the Lithuanian language. Additionally, it...
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Concerning the language, Zinkevičius put forth three possible versions: a Yotvingian dialect under a heavy influence of Lithuanian; Lithuanian words over...
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Balts] (in Lithuanian). Zinkevičius, Zigmas (1994). Lietuvių kalba naujaisiais laikais [The Lithuanian Language in Modern Times] (in Lithuanian). Vilnius:...
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rokunda, žemaitiu šnekta or žemaitiu ruoda; Lithuanian: žemaičių tarmė, žemaičių kalba), is an Eastern Baltic language spoken primarily in Samogitia and is often...
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The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (Polish: I Rzeczpospolita), was a federative real...
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The Prussian Lithuanians, or Lietuvininkai (singular: Lietuvininkas, plural: Lietuvininkai), are Lithuanians, originally Lithuanian language speakers, who...
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Lithuania (Polish: Polacy na Litwie, Lithuanian: Lietuvos lenkai), also called Lithuanian Poles, estimated at 183,000 people in the 2021 Lithuanian census...
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Europe Lithuanian language Lithuanians, a Baltic ethnic group, native to Lithuania and the immediate geographical region Lithuanian cuisine Lithuanian culture...
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Lithuania Minor (Lithuanian: Mažoji Lietuva; Russian: Малая Литва́; Polish: Litwa Mniejsza; German: Kleinlitauen) or Prussian Lithuania (Lithuanian: Prūsų...
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there is no accepted list of Lithuanian gods. Different authors present wildly contradictory reconstructions of the Lithuanian pantheon. This section includes...
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Lithuanian book smugglers or Lithuanian book carriers (Lithuanian: knygnešiaĩ, singular: knygnešys) smuggled Lithuanian language books printed in the Latin...
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Letas [in Lithuanian] (1998). Baltų kalbų gramatinės sistemos raida [Development of the grammatical system of the Baltic Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian...
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Grušaitė (born 1987), writer, curator, and cultural entrepreneur. (in Lithuanian) LITHUANIAN WRITERS List of important Lithuanian writers in Lithuanian....
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the usage of the Polish, Lithuanian (see Lithuanian press ban), Belarusian, and Ukrainian (see Valuyev circular) languages. These measures, however,...
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be Prussian dialects.: 15 It is related to the East Baltic languages such as Lithuanian and Latvian, and more distantly related to Slavic. Compare the...
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gyvenimas (in Lithuanian). 11. Vilnius: 32–33. Zinkevičius, Zigmas (1984). Lietuvių kalbos kilmė [The origin of the Lithuanian language]. Lietuvių kalbos...
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Lithuanian Americans refer to American citizens and residents of Lithuanian descent or were born in Lithuania. New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has the...
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the Lithuanian language. After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1941, the Antanas Smetona Institute for Lithuanian Studies and the Lithuanian Society...
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The Lithuanian National Revival, alternatively the Lithuanian National Awakening or Lithuanian nationalism (Lithuanian: Lietuvių tautinis atgimimas), was...
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Lithuanian literature (Lithuanian: lietuvių literatūra) concerns the art of written works created by Lithuanians throughout their history. A wealth of...
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