Countries
European Union, Lithuania
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Lithuania
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Latvian
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Ačiū
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Labanakt
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Labas rytas
  
günaydın
  
Please
Prašom
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
atsiprašau
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Ate
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Samogitian
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Curonian
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Lithuania
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.00 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
lituanien
  
turc
  
German Name
Litauisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
  
Turkish
  
Origin
c. 1503
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Baltic
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lt
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lit
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
lit
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
lit
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
lith1251
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Lithuanian and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Turkish language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Turkish Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.