Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Latvian
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3224
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Ačiū
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Labanakt
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Prašom
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
atsiprašau
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Ate
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Greece
How Many People Speak
500,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Griko
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Italy
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1025
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
lituanien
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Litauisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
c. 1503
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Modern Greek
Language Position
4474
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
ell
ISO 639 2/B
lit
gre
ISO 639 3
lit
ell
ISO 639 6
lit
ells
Glottocode
lith1251
gree1276
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic