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Countries
European Union, Lithuania

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
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Alphabets
32 14

Phonology

How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 68

Dialect 2
Aukštaitian

Where They Speak
Lithuania

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00 51

Dialect 3
Curonian

Where They Speak
Lithuania

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00 44

Total No. Of Dialects
10 10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.00 million 77

Speaking Population
0.07 % 58

Native Speakers
3.00 million 74

Second Language Speakers
3.00 million 54

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
44 41

Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
lt

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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