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Lithuanian vs Slovak


Slovak vs Lithuanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Lithuania  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

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

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

Alphabets
32  
14
46  
26

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
15  
12

How Many Consonants
20  
10
38  
27

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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!  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Samogitian  
Eastern Slovak  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin  

How Many People Speak
500,000.00  
34
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  

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
4  
4

How Many People Speak

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  

History

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  

Code

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  

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Lithuanian and Slovak Language History

Comparison of Lithuanian vs Slovak language history gives us differences between origin of Lithuanian and Slovak language. History of Lithuanian language states that this language originated in c. 1503 whereas history of Slovak language states that this language originated in 6th 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 Slovak Language History.

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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.

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