Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
European Union, Lithuania
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Lithuania
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
  
Similar To
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Latvian
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Ačiū
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Kaip sekasi?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Labanakt
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Labas vakaras
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Laba diena
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Labas rytas
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
Prašom
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
atsiprašau
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Ate
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Aš myliu tave
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Atsiprašau
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Samogitian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Aukštaitian
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Curonian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
3.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
3.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
lietuvių kalba
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
French Name
chinois
  
lituanien
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Litauisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Lithuanians
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
c. 1503
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
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Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Baltic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Lithuanian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
lt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
lit
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
lit
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
lit
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
lith1251
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
54-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic
  
Chinese and Lithuanian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Lithuanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Lithuanian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Lithuanian word for "Thank You" is Ačiū. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Lithuanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Lithuanian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Lithuanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Lithuanian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Lithuanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Lithuanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Lithuanian time required is 44 weeks.