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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

European Union, Lithuania

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Lithuania

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Poland

1.7 Regulated By

Commission of the Lithuanian Language

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Latvian

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

32
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Sveiki

3.2 Thank You

Ačiū

3.3 How Are You?

Kaip sekasi?

3.4 Good Night

Labanakt

3.5 Good Evening

Labas vakaras

3.6 Good Afternoon

Laba diena

3.7 Good Morning

Labas rytas

3.8 Please

Prašom

3.9 Sorry

atsiprašau

3.10 Bye

Ate

3.11 I Love You

Aš myliu tave

3.12 Excuse Me

Atsiprašau

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Samogitian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Lithuania

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

500,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Aukštaitian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Lithuania

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Curonian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Lithuania

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

3.00 million
Rank: 77 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

3.00 million
Rank: 74 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

lietuvių kalba

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy

5.3.4 French Name

lituanien

5.3.5 German Name

Litauisch

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Lithuanians

6 History

6.1 Origin

c. 1503

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Baltic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Lithuanian

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Lithuanian Sign Language

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

lt

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

lit

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

lit

7.3 ISO 639 3

lit

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

lith1251

7.6 Linguasphere

54-AAA-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Origin of Lithuanian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Lithuanian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Lithuanian language states that it was put to use in c. 1503. The history of Lithuanian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Lithuanian Language History. Lithuanian has no early forms. Lithuanian is the standard form of Lithuanian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Lithuanian Language.

Lithuanian population

Lithuanian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Lithuanian language. Lithuanian language is spoken by 3.00 million people in the world. Most of the Lithuanian population lies in the Lithuanian Speaking Countries. Lithuanian language is spoken as first language by 3.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Lithuanian as second language. Get to know Lithuanian speaking population in detail.

Lithuanian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Lithuanian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Lithuanian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Lithuanian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Lithuanian language

Check out all the information about Lithuanian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Lithuanian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Lithuanian Speaking Countries, Lithuanian speaking continents and Lithuanian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Lithuanian countries knowing common Lithuanian Greetings will help you in communicating with Lithuanian people.