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Lithuanian

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Countries

Countries

European Union, Lithuania
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Lithuania
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Poland
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Latvian
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3226
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1210
0 32
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How Many Consonants

209
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
hallo

Thank You

Ačiū
Danke

How Are You?

Kaip sekasi?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Labanakt
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Labas vakaras
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Laba diena
guten Tag

Good Morning

Labas rytas
guten Morgen

Please

Prašom
bitte

Sorry

atsiprašau
Verzeihung

Bye

Ate
Tschüs

I Love You

Aš myliu tave
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Atsiprašau
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Samogitian
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

500,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Aukštaitian
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Germany

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Curonian
Texas German

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Texas

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1028
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

lietuvių kalba
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

lituanien
allemand

German Name

Litauisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Lithuanians
Germans

History

Origin

c. 1503
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

Baltic
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Lithuanian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

449
1 120
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Signed Forms

Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lt
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lit
deu

ISO 639 2/B

lit
ger

ISO 639 3

lit
deu

ISO 639 6

lit
deus

Glottocode

lith1251
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

54-AAA-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Lithuanian and German Alphabets

Lithuanian and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Lithuanian and German. In Lithuanian Alphabets there are 32 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Lithuanian and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Lithuanian and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Lithuanian and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Lithuanian and German 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 German dialects. Various dialects of Lithuanian and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Lithuanian are spoken in different Lithuanian Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Lithuanian vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Lithuanian dialects include: Samogitian, Aukštaitian. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Lithuanian and German Speaking population

Lithuanian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lithuanian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Lithuanian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Lithuanian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Lithuanian and German Language Codes

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