Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
France, Spain
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Spanish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Kaixo
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
Eskerrik asko
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Zer moduz?
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
Gabon
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
Egun on
  
Please
Prašom
  
Mesedez
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
Barkatu
  
Bye
Ate
  
Agur
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Maite zaitut
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Barkatu
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
France
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Souletin
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
France, Soule, Spain
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Biscayan
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Spain
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
7.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
7.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
French Name
lituanien
  
basque
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Baskisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Basque people
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
c. 1000
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Vasconic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Basque
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
eu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
eus
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
baq
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
eus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
basq1248
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
40-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Lithuanian and Basque 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 Basque greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Basque language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Basque word for "Thank You" is Eskerrik asko. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Basque Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Basque Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Basque difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Basque 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 Basque are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Basque, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Basque time required is 88 weeks.