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Lithuanian and Finnish


Finnish and Lithuanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Lithuania   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Poland   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

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

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

Similar To
Latvian   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200   
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
32   
14
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
8   
5

How Many Consonants
20   
10
13   
3

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Sveiki   
Moi   

Thank You
Ačiū   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
Labanakt   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
Labas vakaras   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
Laba diena   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
Labas rytas   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
Prašom   
haluta   

Sorry
atsiprašau   
Anteeksi   

Bye
Ate   
Heippa   

I Love You
Aš myliu tave   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
Atsiprašau   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Samogitian   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
500,000.00   
34
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Aukštaitian   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
Finland, Rauma   

Dialect 3
Curonian   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
10   
10
21   
19

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
3.00 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
lietuvių kalba   
suomi / suomen kieli   

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

French Name
lituanien   
finnois   

German Name
Litauisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Lithuanians   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
c. 1503   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Baltic   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Lithuanian   
standard Finnish   

Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
lt   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lit   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
lit   
fin   

ISO 639 3
lit   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
lith1251   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
54-AAA-a   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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All Lithuanian and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Lithuanian and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Lithuanian and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Lithuanian are spoken in different Lithuanian Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Lithuanian vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Lithuanian dialects include: Samogitian, Aukštaitian. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Lithuanian and Finnish Speaking population

Lithuanian and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lithuanian and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Lithuanian and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available. 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 Finnish on Lithuanian vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Lithuanian and Finnish Language Codes

Lithuanian and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Lithuanian and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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