Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Japan
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Japan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Pacific
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Palau
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
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.
  
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Korean Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Kana
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
Please
Prašom
  
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
Bye
Ate
  
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Sanuki
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Kagawa
  
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Hakata
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Fukuoka
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Kansai
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
kansai
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
14
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
9
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
日本語
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Not Available
  
French Name
lituanien
  
japonais
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Japanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
1185
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Japonic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Japanese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Signed Japanese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
ja
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
nucl1643
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
45-CAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Lithuanian and Japanese Speaking population
Lithuanian and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lithuanian and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Lithuanian and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Lithuanian vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Lithuanian and Japanese Language Codes
Lithuanian and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Lithuanian and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.