Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Prašom
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Ate
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Not Available
  
French Name
lituanien
  
chinois
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Han
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Lithuanian and Chinese Speaking population
Lithuanian and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lithuanian and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Lithuanian and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Lithuanian and Chinese on Lithuanian vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Lithuanian and Chinese Language Codes
Lithuanian and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Lithuanian and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.