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Lithuanian vs Russian


Russian vs Lithuanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Lithuania  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Lithuania  
Russia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Poland  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

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.
  

Similar To
Latvian  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
32  
14
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
10  
7

How Many Consonants
20  
10
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

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
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Sveiki  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
Ačiū  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
Labanakt  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
Labas vakaras  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
Laba diena  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
Labas rytas  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
Prašom  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
atsiprašau  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
Ate  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
Aš myliu tave  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
Atsiprašau  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Samogitian  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
500,000.00  
34
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Aukštaitian  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Olonets  

Dialect 3
Curonian  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Novgorod  

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.00 million  
99+
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
Not Available  
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
3.00 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
lietuvių kalba  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy  
Russki  

French Name
lituanien  
russe  

German Name
Litauisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Lithuanians  
Russians  

History

Origin
c. 1503  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Slavic  

Branch
Baltic  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
Lithuanian  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
Not Available  
7  
7

Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
lt  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lit  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
lit  
rus  

ISO 639 3
lit  
rus  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
lith1251  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
54-AAA-a  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Lithuanian and Russian Language History

Comparison of Lithuanian vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Lithuanian and Russian language. History of Lithuanian language states that this language originated in c. 1503 whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 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 Russian Language History.

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Lithuanian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Russian language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Lithuanian vs Russian Difficulty

The Lithuanian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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