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Lithuanian vs Serbian


Serbian vs Lithuanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Lithuania   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Lithuania   
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Europe   

Minority Language
Poland   
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia   

Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language   
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language   

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.
  
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  

Similar To
Latvian   
Bosnian and Croatian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200   
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
32   
14
30   
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
5   
2

How Many Consonants
20   
10
25   
15

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic, Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Sveiki   
Здраво (Zdravo)   

Thank You
Ačiū   
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)   

How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?   
Како си? (Kako si?)   

Good Night
Labanakt   
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)   

Good Evening
Labas vakaras   
Добро вече (Dobro veče)   

Good Afternoon
Laba diena   
Добар дан (Dobar dan)   

Good Morning
Labas rytas   
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)   

Please
Prašom   
Молим (Molim)   

Sorry
atsiprašau   
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)   

Bye
Ate   
Довиђења (Doviđenja)   

I Love You
Aš myliu tave   
Волим те (Volim te)   

Excuse Me
Atsiprašau   
Извините (Izvinite)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Samogitian   
Prizren-Timok   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
Southeastern Serbia   

How Many People Speak
500,000.00   
34
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Aukštaitian   
Smederevo–Vršac   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
Serbia   

Dialect 3
Curonian   
Torlakian   

Where They Speak
Lithuania   
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,500,000.00   
17

Total No. Of Dialects
10   
10
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.00 million   
99+
8.70 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
3.00 million   
99+
8.70 million   
99+

Native Name
lietuvių kalba   
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)   

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

French Name
lituanien   
serbe   

German Name
Litauisch   
Serbisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[sr̩̂pskiː]   

Ethnicity
Lithuanians   
Serbs   

History

Origin
c. 1503   
11th Century   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Not Available   

Branch
Baltic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Lithuanian   
Standard Serbian   

Language Position
Not Available   
44   
33

Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
lt   
sr   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lit   
srp   

ISO 639 2/B
lit   
srp   

ISO 639 3
lit   
srp   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
lith1251   
serb1264   

Linguasphere
54-AAA-a   
53-AAA-g   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Not Available   

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Lithuanian and Serbian Language History

Comparison of Lithuanian vs Serbian language history gives us differences between origin of Lithuanian and Serbian language. History of Lithuanian language states that this language originated in c. 1503 whereas history of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th Century. 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 Serbian Language History.

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

Lithuanian vs Serbian Difficulty

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

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