Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
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.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Latvian
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3248
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2039
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
dobry dzień
Thank You
Ačiū
Dziakuj
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Jak vy ?
Good Night
Labanakt
Dabranač
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
dobry dzień
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Dobraj ranicy
Please
Prašom
Kali laska
Sorry
atsiprašau
Vybačajcie
Bye
Ate
da pabačennia
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Samogitian
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
500,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million9.63 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million5.89 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
lituanien
biélorusse
German Name
Litauisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Belarusians
Origin
c. 1503
18th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
Baltic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Belarusian
Language Position
4479
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
bel
ISO 639 2/B
lit
bel
ISO 639 3
lit
bel
ISO 639 6
lit
bel
Glottocode
lith1251
bela1254
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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