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Soviet authorities introduced Lithuanian–Russian bilingualism, [74] and Russian, as the de facto official language of the USSR, took precedence and the use of Lithuanian was reduced in a process of Russification.
After the Partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, most of the Baltic lands were under the rule of the Russian Empire, where the native languages or alphabets were sometimes prohibited from being written down or used publicly in a Russification effort (see Lithuanian press ban for the ban in force from 1864 to 1904).
The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European branch, [ 3 ] which points to a period of common development and origin.
The two states fought numerous wars, with Lithuania controlling sizeable parts of modern-day Russia in the Late Middle Ages, and Russia controlling the bulk of Lithuania in the late modern period. In response to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Bucha massacre , in April 2022, Lithuania downgraded the diplomatic relations and expelled ...
Lithuanian-Slavic language (Russian: литово-славянский язык) – another regionally oriented designation, used by 19th-century Russian researcher Baranovskiy. [ 20 ] Chancery Slavonic , or Chancery Slavic – a term used for the written form, based on Old Church Slavonic , but influenced by various local dialects and used in ...
The modern East Slavic languages descend from a common predecessor spoken in Kievan Rus' from the 9th to 13th centuries, which later evolved into Ruthenian, the chancery language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Dnieper river valley, and into medieval Russian in the Volga river valley, the language of the Russian principalities including ...
The East Baltic languages are less archaic than their Western counterparts, with Latvian being the most innovative Baltic language. Certain linguistic features of East Baltic languages are usually explained by contacts with their Baltic Finnic neighbours. It is believed that stress retraction in Latvian is a consequence of their influence.
According to the 2010 Russian census, 31,377 (0.023% of the total population of Russia) declared themselves as Lithuanians. [1] According to the 2021 Russian census, 13,230 (0.01%) declared themselves as Lithuanians. [2] As of 2019 Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs listed some 20 Lithuanian associations registered in Russia. [3]