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German vs Lithuanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Lithuania  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
7  
8

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

Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
32  
14
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
10  
7

How Many Consonants
20  
10
9  
1

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Samogitian  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
500,000.00  
34
4,500,000.00  
18

Dialect 2
Aukštaitian  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
820,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Curonian  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
6,000.00  
35

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.00 million  
99+
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
Not Available  
1.39 %  
12

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  

History

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  
9  
9

Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language  
Signed German  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Lithuanian and German Language History

Comparison of Lithuanian vs German language history gives us differences between origin of Lithuanian and German language. History of Lithuanian language states that this language originated in c. 1503 whereas history of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Lithuanian and German Language History.

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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.

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