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Lithuanian vs Chinese


Chinese vs Lithuanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Lithuania   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
5   
10

National Language
Lithuania   
China, Taiwan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Poland   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language   
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council   

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.
  
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  

Similar To
Latvian   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200   
Chinese.jpg#200   

Alphabets
32   
14
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
24   
19

How Many Consonants
20   
10
23   
13

Scripts
Latin   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
Sveiki   
您好 (Nín hǎo)   

Thank You
Ačiū   
谢谢 (Xièxiè)   

How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?   
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)   

Good Night
Labanakt   
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)   

Good Evening
Labas vakaras   
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)   

Good Afternoon
Laba diena   
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)   

Good Morning
Labas rytas   
早安 (Zǎo ān)   

Please
Prašom   
请 (Qǐng)   

Sorry
atsiprašau   
遗憾 (Yíhàn)   

Bye
Ate   
再见 (Zàijiàn)   

I Love You
Aš myliu tave   
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)   

Excuse Me
Atsiprašau   
劳驾 (Láojià)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Samogitian   
Mandarin   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   

How Many People Speak
500,000.00   
34
960,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 2
Aukštaitian   
Wu   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
China, United States of America   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
80,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 3
Curonian   
Yue   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
10   
10
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.00 million   
99+
1,051.00 million   
2

Speaking Population
Not Available   
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
3.00 million   
99+
873.00 million   
1

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
178.00 million   
3

Native Name
lietuvių kalba   
中文 (zhōngwén)   

Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy   
Not Available   

French Name
lituanien   
chinois   

German Name
Litauisch   
Chinesisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Lithuanians   
Han   

History

Origin
c. 1503   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Not Available   

Branch
Baltic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Lithuanian   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
Not Available   
1   
1

Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
lt   
zh   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lit   
zho   

ISO 639 2/B
lit   
chi   

ISO 639 3
lit   
zho   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
lith1251   
sini1245   

Linguasphere
54-AAA-a   
79-AAA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Analytic, Isolating   

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Lithuanian and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Lithuanian vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Lithuanian and Chinese language. History of Lithuanian language states that this language originated in c. 1503 whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Lithuanian and Chinese Language History.

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Lithuanian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Chinese language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Lithuanian vs Chinese Difficulty

The Lithuanian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.

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