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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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