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Lithuanian and Latvian are two closely related languages, the only two of the Baltic branch of Indo-European languages. They are quite similar and share a great deal of vocabulary and grammar features, but not close enough to make conversation possible. The paper reveals that commonalities between Latvian and Lithuanian information and communication technologies (ICT) terms are mostly due internationalisms, there are only small proportion of terms with common Baltic word-roots; influence of English language in Latvian and Lithuanian ICT terminology is moderate, if not minor; deliberately or unawares, Lithuanian terminologists follow the same rules as their Latvian counterparts.
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The work described in this paper was supported by the project no. AAP2016/B032 “Innovative Information Technologies” at the University of Latvia.
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Borzovs, J. (2018). A Light Insight into Latvian and Lithuanian ICT Terminology: Whether Kindred Language Imply Kindred Terminology?. In: Lupeikiene, A., Vasilecas, O., Dzemyda, G. (eds) Databases and Information Systems. DB&IS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 838. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97571-9_2
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