Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
France, Spain
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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
Spanish
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2732
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kaixo
Sveiki
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
Ačiū
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Gabon
Labanakt
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
Laba diena
Good Morning
Egun on
Labas rytas
Please
Mesedez
Prašom
Sorry
Barkatu
atsiprašau
Bye
Agur
Ate
I Love You
Maite zaitut
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Barkatu
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Samogitian
Where They Speak
France
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
68,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Souletin
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
8,700.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Biscayan
Curonian
Where They Speak
Spain
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
750,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.20 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Euskara
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
basque
lituanien
German Name
Baskisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[bɑːsk]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Basque people
Lithuanians
Origin
c. 1000
c. 1503
Language Family
Vasconic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Basque
Lithuanian
Language Position
3044
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Basque Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
eu
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eus
lit
ISO 639 2/B
baq
lit
ISO 639 3
eus
lit
ISO 639 6
eus
lit
Glottocode
basq1248
lith1251
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic