1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Lithuania
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Lithuania
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Poland
1.7 Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
1.9 Similar To
Latvian
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sveiki
3.2 Thank You
Ačiū
3.3 How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
3.4 Good Night
Labanakt
3.5 Good Evening
Labas vakaras
3.6 Good Afternoon
Laba diena
3.7 Good Morning
Labas rytas
3.8 Please
Prašom
3.9 Sorry
atsiprašau
3.10 Bye
Ate
3.11 I Love You
Aš myliu tave
3.12 Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Samogitian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Lithuania
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Lithuania
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Curonian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Lithuania
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
Rank: 77 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
3.00 million
Rank: 74 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
lietuvių kalba
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
5.3.4 French Name
lituanien
5.3.5 German Name
Litauisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Lithuanians
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 1503
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Baltic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Lithuanian
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
lt
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
lit
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
lit
7.3 ISO 639 3
lit
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
lith1251
7.6 Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic