Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
European Union, Lithuania
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Lithuania
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Latvian
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Ačiū
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Kaip sekasi?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Labanakt
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Labas vakaras
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Laba diena
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Labas rytas
  
Please
Please
  
Prašom
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
atsiprašau
  
Bye
Bye
  
Ate
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Aš myliu tave
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Atsiprašau
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Samogitian
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Aukštaitian
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Curonian
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
3.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
3.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
lietuvių kalba
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
French Name
anglais
  
lituanien
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Litauisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Lithuanians
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
c. 1503
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Baltic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Lithuanian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
lt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
lit
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
lit
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
lit
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
lith1251
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
54-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Synthetic