Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
European Union, Lithuania
  
National Language
Germany
  
Lithuania
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Latvian
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Ačiū
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Kaip sekasi?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Labanakt
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Labas vakaras
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Laba diena
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Labas rytas
  
Please
bitte
  
Prašom
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
atsiprašau
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Ate
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Aš myliu tave
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Atsiprašau
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Samogitian
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Aukštaitian
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Curonian
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
3.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
3.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
lietuvių kalba
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
French Name
allemand
  
lituanien
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Litauisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Lithuanians
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
c. 1503
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Baltic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Lithuanian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
lt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
lit
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
lit
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
lit
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
lith1251
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
54-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
German 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 German and Lithuanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Lithuanian language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Lithuanian word for "Thank You" is Ačiū. Find more of such common German Greetings and Lithuanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Lithuanian Difficulty
The German vs Lithuanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Lithuanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Lithuanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Lithuanian time required is 44 weeks.