Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Poland
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Latvian
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3244
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2032
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
sannu
Thank You
Ačiū
gode ku
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
yaya dai
Good Night
Labanakt
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
barka da rana
Good Morning
Labas rytas
mai kyau safe
Please
Prašom
Don Allah
Sorry
atsiprašau
yi hakuri
Bye
Ate
sai anjima
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Ghana
How Many People Speak
500,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Niger
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Niger
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1020
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.52 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
lituanien
haoussa
German Name
Litauisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
c. 1503
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Chadic
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Hausa
Language Position
4434
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
hau
ISO 639 2/B
lit
hau
ISO 639 3
lit
hau
ISO 639 6
lit
hau
Glottocode
lith1251
haus1257
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional