Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
European Union, Lithuania
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Lithuania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Latvian
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
Asante
  
Ačiū
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
Kaip sekasi?
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
Labanakt
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
Labas vakaras
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
Laba diena
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
Labas rytas
  
Please
tafadhali
  
Prašom
  
Sorry
pole
  
atsiprašau
  
Bye
bye
  
Ate
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
Aš myliu tave
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
Atsiprašau
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Samogitian
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Aukštaitian
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
Lithuania
  
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Curonian
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
3.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
3.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
Not Available
  
lietuvių kalba
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
French Name
swahili
  
lituanien
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Litauisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Lithuanians
  
Origin
6th century
  
c. 1503
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Baltic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Lithuanian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
lt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
lit
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
lit
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
lit
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
lith1251
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
54-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Swahili and Lithuanian 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 Swahili and Lithuanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Lithuanian language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Lithuanian word for "Thank You" is Ačiū. Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Lithuanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Lithuanian Difficulty
The Swahili vs Lithuanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili Alphabets and Lithuanian 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 Swahili and Lithuanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Lithuanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Lithuanian time required is 44 weeks.