Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Poland
Zambia
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Latvian
Zulu language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3231
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2018
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks32 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Moni
Thank You
Ačiū
Zikomo
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
Labanakt
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Masana abwino
Good Morning
Labas rytas
M'mawa wabwino
Please
Prašom
Chonde
Sorry
atsiprašau
pepani
Bye
Ate
anatsanzikana
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Pepani
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Kasungu
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
105
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million12.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.17 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.00 million12.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
lituanien
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Litauisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Chewa people
Origin
c. 1503
15th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
Baltic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Chewa
Language Position
4427
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
nya
ISO 639 2/B
lit
nya
ISO 639 3
lit
nya
ISO 639 6
lit
nya
Glottocode
lith1251
nyan1308
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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