Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
European Union, Lithuania
National Language
China, Taiwan
Lithuania
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Poland
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Latvian
Alphabets in
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Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Sveiki
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Ačiū
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Labanakt
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Laba diena
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Labas rytas
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
atsiprašau
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Samogitian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Lithuania
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Lithuania
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Lithuania
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
chinois
lituanien
German Name
Chinesisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Han
Lithuanians
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Lithuanian
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
sini1245
lith1251
Linguasphere
79-AAA
54-AAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic
Chinese 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 Chinese and Lithuanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Lithuanian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Lithuanian word for "Thank You" is Ačiū. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Lithuanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Lithuanian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Lithuanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Lithuanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Lithuanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Lithuanian time required is 44 weeks.