Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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 only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Prašom
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
Ate
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
lituanien
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Lithuanian and Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Bulgarian language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.