German

Lithuanian

German and Lithuanian

German

Lithuanian

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Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

European Union, Lithuania

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Germany

Lithuania

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Poland

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography

Commission of the Lithuanian Language

Interesting Facts

One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Latvian

Derived From

Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2632

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1012

0 32

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How Many Consonants

920

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

hallo

Sveiki

Thank You

Danke

Ačiū

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?

Kaip sekasi?

Good Night

gute Nacht

Labanakt

Good Evening

guten Abend

Labas vakaras

Good Afternoon

guten Tag

Laba diena

Good Morning

guten Morgen

Labas rytas

Please

bitte

Prašom

Sorry

Verzeihung

atsiprašau

Bye

Tschüs

Ate

I Love You

Ich liebe dich

Aš myliu tave

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung

Atsiprašau

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German

Samogitian

Where They Speak

Switzerland

Lithuania

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00500,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Swabian German

Aukštaitian

Where They Speak

Germany

Lithuania

How Many People Speak

820,000.003,000,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Texas German

Curonian

Where They Speak

Texas

Lithuania

How Many People Speak

6,000.003,000,000.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

2810

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million3.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.07 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

101.00 million3.00 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million3.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Deutsch

lietuvių kalba

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco

Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy

French Name

allemand

lituanien

German Name

Deutsch

Litauisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]

Ethnicity

Germans

Lithuanians

History

Origin

6th Century AD

c. 1503

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Branch

Western

Baltic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Lithuanian

Language Position

944

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed German

Lithuanian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu

lit

ISO 639 2/B

ger

lit

ISO 639 3

deu

lit

ISO 639 6

deus

lit

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397

lith1251

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm

54-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Synthetic

German and Lithuanian Alphabets

German and Lithuanian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Lithuanian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Lithuanian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn German and Lithuanian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Lithuanian languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Lithuanian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Lithuanian are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Lithuanian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Lithuanian dialects. Various dialects of German and Lithuanian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Lithuanian Dialects are spoken in different Lithuanian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Lithuanian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Lithuanian dialects include: Samogitian , Aukštaitian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Lithuanian Speaking population

German and Lithuanian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Lithuanian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Lithuanian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Lithuanian on German vs Lithuanian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Lithuanian Language Codes

German and Lithuanian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Lithuanian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.