Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
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 in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
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
  
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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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.