1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Poland
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1.8 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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Latvian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sveiki
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
Labanakt
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
Labas rytas
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
Prašom
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
atsiprašau
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
Ate
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Samogitian
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Lithuania
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
3.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
3.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Russki
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Russian
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic