Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Prašom
  
bitte
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Ate
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
lituanien
  
allemand
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Germans
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Lithuanian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and German language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs German Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.