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Favorite thing: Lithuanian is the official language.
The Lithuanian language is one of the most archaic in Europe. Lithuanian is a representative of the Baltic group of the Indo-European languages. Currently, only Latvian is closely related to it. The four ethnic groups of Lithuanians have preserved their dialects, which differ in their phonetic, morphological and syntactic features, and even in vocabulary. Standard Lithuanian was formed on the basis of Latin vocabulary. It is claimed at times that Lithuanian is descended from Sanskrit. This hypothesis finds a sizeable number of supporters.

Lithuanian has a large number of dialects for such a small territory, including High Lithuanian (Aukstaiciai) and Low Lithuanian (Zemaiciai).