Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
East Asia, European Union
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Akademio de Esperanto
  
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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
Dankon
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
Bonan nokton
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
Bonan vesperon
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
Bonan matenon
  
Please
Prašom
  
Mi petas
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Bye
Ate
  
Ĝis poste
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Mi amas vin
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Pardonu!
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Not present
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Not present
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
2.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
0.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
Esperanto
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
French Name
lituanien
  
espéranto
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Esperanto
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[espeˈranto]
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
1887
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Esperanto
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Esperanto
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Signuno
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
eo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
epo
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
epo
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
epo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
espe1235
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
51-AAB-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Constructed
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Lithuanian and Esperanto 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 Esperanto greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Esperanto language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Esperanto word for "Thank You" is Dankon. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Esperanto Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Esperanto Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Esperanto difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Esperanto 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 Esperanto are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Esperanto, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Esperanto time required is 6 weeks.