Countries
Japan
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Poland
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9932
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1420
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Sveiki
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Ačiū
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Labanakt
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Laba diena
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Labas rytas
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Prašom
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
atsiprašau
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Ate
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Curonian
Where They Speak
kansai
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3110
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
japonais
lituanien
German Name
Japanisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Lithuanians
Origin
1185
c. 1503
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Lithuanian
Language Position
844
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
lit
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
lit
ISO 639 3
jpn
lit
ISO 639 6
jpn
lit
Glottocode
nucl1643
lith1251
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic