Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Latvian
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3230
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2025
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Sveiki
Zdravo
Thank You
Ačiū
Hvala
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Kako si?
Good Night
Labanakt
Laku noc
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Dobar dan
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Dobro jutro
Please
Prašom
molim vas
Sorry
atsiprašau
Oprostite
Bye
Ate
Zbogom
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Volim te
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Croatia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Croatia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
106
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
lituanien
bosniaque
German Name
Litauisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Bosniaks
Origin
c. 1503
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Bosnian
Language Position
4424
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
bos
ISO 639 2/B
lit
bos
ISO 639 3
lit
bos
ISO 639 6
lit
boss
Glottocode
lith1251
bosn1245
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-