Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
29
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Latvian
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2025
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
bok
Thank You
Ačiū
hvala
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
kako si
Good Night
Labanakt
laku noć
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
dobar dan
Good Morning
Labas rytas
dobro jutro
Please
Prašom
molim
Sorry
atsiprašau
Oprostite
Bye
Ate
Doviđenja
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Volim te
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Croatia
How Many People Speak
500,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Croatia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1079
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Hrvatski
French Name
lituanien
croate
German Name
Litauisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Croats
Origin
c. 1503
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
4423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
lit
hrv
ISO 639 3
lit
hrv
ISO 639 6
lit
hrv
Glottocode
lith1251
croa1245
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic