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Lithuanian

Finnish
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Lithuanian and Finnish

Countries

Countries

European Union, Lithuania
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Lithuania
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Poland
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland

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.
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.

Similar To

Latvian
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3229
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

128
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2013
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
Moi

Thank You

Ačiū
Kiitos

How Are You?

Kaip sekasi?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Labanakt
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

Labas vakaras
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Laba diena
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

Labas rytas
Hyvää huomenta

Please

Prašom
haluta

Sorry

atsiprašau
Anteeksi

Bye

Ate
Heippa

I Love You

Aš myliu tave
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Atsiprašau
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Samogitian
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Finland

How Many People Speak

500,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Aukštaitian
Rauma

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Curonian
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1021
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

lietuvių kalba
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Suomi

French Name

lituanien
finnois

German Name

Litauisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Lithuanians
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

c. 1503
1543

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

-
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Baltic
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Lithuanian
standard Finnish

Language Position

4422
1 120
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Signed Forms

Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lt
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lit
fin

ISO 639 2/B

lit
fin

ISO 639 3

lit
fin

ISO 639 6

lit
fin

Glottocode

lith1251
finn1318

Linguasphere

54-AAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Lithuanian and Finnish Alphabets

Lithuanian and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Lithuanian and Finnish. In Lithuanian Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Lithuanian and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Lithuanian and Finnish languages. The Lithuanian phonology consist Lithuanian vowels and Lithuanian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Lithuanian greetings vs Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Lithuanian and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Lithuanian and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Lithuanian and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Lithuanian and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Lithuanian are spoken in different Lithuanian Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Lithuanian vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Lithuanian dialects include: Samogitian, Aukštaitian. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Lithuanian and Finnish Speaking population

Lithuanian and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lithuanian and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Lithuanian and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Lithuanian and Finnish on Lithuanian vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Lithuanian and Finnish Language Codes

Lithuanian and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Lithuanian and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.