Benoît Mandelbrot seems to be of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Mandelbrot
So, is it true that some features of certain rural dialects of Lithuanian are closer to the language of, say, Rgveda, than any other modern Indo-European language? http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/image/first/scandinavia.gif
