Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
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.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Latvian
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Habari
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
Prašom
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
pole
  
Bye
Ate
  
bye
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Zanzibar island
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Dar es Salaam
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
lituanien
  
swahili
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Swahili
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Lithuanian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Swahili language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Swahili Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.