Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
Prašom
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Ate
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
lituanien
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Lithuanian and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Lithuanian and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Abkhaz language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Lithuanian and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.