Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Prašom
  
haluta
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Ate
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Suomi
  
French Name
lituanien
  
finnois
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Lithuanian and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Finnish language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Finnish 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 Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.