Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Norway
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
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.
  
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-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
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
god morgen
  
Please
Prašom
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
Ate
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Norsk
  
French Name
lituanien
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Lithuanian and Norwegian 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 Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Norwegian language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Norwegian 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 Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.