Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
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Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
Prašom
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
Ate
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
lituanien
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Slovak
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Lithuanian and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Slovak language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Slovak Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.