Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Prašom
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Ate
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Russki
  
French Name
lituanien
  
russe
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Russians
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Lithuanian and Russian Speaking population
Lithuanian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lithuanian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Lithuanian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Lithuanian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Lithuanian and Russian Language Codes
Lithuanian and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Lithuanian and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.