The ‘About-To-Be’ Tense of Lithuanian
Lithuanian, one of Europe's oldest languages, possesses a fascinating grammatical tool that English lacks: a specific way to talk about things that are just about to happen. This "inceptive" mood,…
Baltic Languages
The Last Words of Old Prussian: How a Language Was Erased by the Sword
The death of a language is usually a slow fade, but Old Prussian was not so lucky. It was systematically eradicated by the sword of the Teutonic Knights in a…