Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Prašom
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Ate
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
lituanien
  
népalais
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Lithuanian and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Nepali language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.