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
