Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
bok
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Prašom
  
molim
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Ate
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
lituanien
  
croate
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Croats
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Lithuanian and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Croatian language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.