Countries
European Union, Lithuania
India
National Language
Lithuania
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Not Available
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Latvian
Munda Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Labanakt
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Not Available
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Boge Setak’
Please
Prašom
Not Available
Sorry
atsiprašau
Not Available
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Not Available
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Not Available
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Mahali
Where They Speak
Lithuania
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Not present
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Not Available
Dialect 3
Curonian
Not present
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
lituanien
santal
German Name
Litauisch
Santali
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
c. 1503
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Baltic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Santali
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
lith1251
sant1410
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
Lithuanian and Santali 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 Santali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Santali language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Santali word for "Thank You" is Adi Johar. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Santali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Santali Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Santali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Santali 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 Santali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Santali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Santali time required is Not Available.