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Finnish vs Lithuanian


Lithuanian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
European Union, Lithuania  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Lithuania  

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Poland  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Commission of the Lithuanian Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
  • 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Latvian  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
12  
9

How Many Consonants
13  
3
20  
10

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Sveiki  

Thank You
Kiitos  
Ačiū  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Kaip sekasi?  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Labanakt  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
Labas vakaras  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
Laba diena  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
Labas rytas  

Please
haluta  
Prašom  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
atsiprašau  

Bye
Heippa  
Ate  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Aš myliu tave  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Atsiprašau  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Samogitian  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Lithuania  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
500,000.00  
34

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Aukštaitian  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Lithuania  

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Curonian  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Lithuania  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
10  
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
3.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
3.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
Not Available  

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
lietuvių kalba  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy  

French Name
finnois  
lituanien  

German Name
Finnisch  
Litauisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Lithuanians  

History

Origin
1543  
c. 1503  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Not Available  

Branch
Finnic  
Baltic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Lithuanian  

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Lithuanian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
lt  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
lit  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
lit  

ISO 639 3
fin  
lit  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
lith1251  

Linguasphere
No data available  
54-AAA-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Synthetic  

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Finnish and Lithuanian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Lithuanian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Lithuanian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Lithuanian language states that this language originated in c. 1503. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Finnish and Lithuanian Language History.

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Finnish 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 Finnish and Lithuanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Lithuanian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Lithuanian word for "Thank You" is Ačiū. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Lithuanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Finnish vs Lithuanian Difficulty

The Finnish vs Lithuanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish 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 Finnish and Lithuanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Lithuanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Lithuanian time required is 44 weeks.

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