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Lithuanian and Japanese

Countries

Countries

European Union, Lithuania
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Lithuania
Japan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Poland
Palau

Regulated By

Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Latvian
Korean Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3299
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2014
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Ačiū
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Kaip sekasi?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Labanakt
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Labas vakaras
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Laba diena
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Labas rytas
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

Prašom
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

atsiprašau
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Ate
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Aš myliu tave
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Atsiprašau
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Samogitian
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

500,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Aukštaitian
Hakata

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Curonian
Kansai

Where They Speak

Lithuania
kansai

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1031
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

lietuvių kalba
日本語

Alternative Names

Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Nihongo

French Name

lituanien
japonais

German Name

Litauisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Lithuanians
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

c. 1503
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

Baltic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Lithuanian
Japanese

Language Position

448
1 120
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Signed Forms

Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lt
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lit
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

lit
jpn

ISO 639 3

lit
jpn

ISO 639 6

lit
jpn

Glottocode

lith1251
nucl1643

Linguasphere

54-AAA-a
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Lithuanian and Japanese Alphabets

Lithuanian and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Lithuanian and Japanese. In Lithuanian Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Lithuanian and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Lithuanian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Lithuanian and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Lithuanian and Japanese Speaking population

Lithuanian and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lithuanian and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Lithuanian and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Lithuanian vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Lithuanian and Japanese Language Codes

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