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Countries

European Union, Lithuania

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Lithuania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Poland

Regulated By

Commission of the Lithuanian Language

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.

Similar To

Latvian

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 14 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 10 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki

Thank You

Ačiū

How Are You?

Kaip sekasi?

Good Night

Labanakt

Good Evening

Labas vakaras

Good Afternoon

Laba diena

Good Morning

Labas rytas

Please

Prašom

Sorry

atsiprašau

Bye

Ate

I Love You

Aš myliu tave

Excuse Me

Atsiprašau

Dialects

Dialect 1

Samogitian

Where They Speak

Lithuania

How Many People Speak

500,000.00

Rank: 68 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Aukštaitian

Where They Speak

Lithuania

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00

Rank: 51 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Curonian

Where They Speak

Lithuania

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00

Rank: 44 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 10 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.00 million

Rank: 77 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.07 %

Rank: 58 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

3.00 million

Rank: 74 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million

Rank: 54 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

lietuvių kalba

Alternative Names

Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy

French Name

lituanien

German Name

Litauisch

Pronunciation

[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]

Ethnicity

Lithuanians

History

Origin

c. 1503

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Branch

Baltic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Lithuanian

Language Position

Rank: 41 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Lithuanian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lit

ISO 639 2/B

lit

ISO 639 3

lit

ISO 639 6

lit

Glottocode

lith1251

Linguasphere

54-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Lithuanian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Lithuanian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Lithuanian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Lithuanian. Lithuanian phonology gives Lithuanian vowels and Lithuanian consonants. There are 12 vowels and 20 consonants in Lithuanian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Lithuanian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Lithuanian language is given in detail in this section.

All Lithuanian countries

Want to explore all Lithuanian countries? About Lithuanian language serves you with all Lithuanian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Lithuanian as official language are called as Lithuanian countries.

Countries that use Lithuanian as their National Language are: Lithuania.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Lithuanian as second language are: Lithuanian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Lithuanian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Lithuanian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Lithuanian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Lithuanian language.Learn Lithuanian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Sveiki
Thank you: Ačiū
Good Morning: Labas rytas
Good Evening: Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon: Laba diena

All Lithuanian Language Codes

Get to know all Lithuanian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Lithuanian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.