Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Latvian
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3221
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2019
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Bwakeye
Thank You
Ačiū
Urakoze
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
Labanakt
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Mwaramutse
Please
Prašom
Ndagusavye
Sorry
atsiprašau
Ndasubiza
Bye
Ate
N’agasaga
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
500,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Ha
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Shubi
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
106
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
lituanien
rundi
German Name
Litauisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
c. 1503
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Kirundi
Language Position
4486
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
lt
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
run
ISO 639 2/B
lit
run
ISO 639 3
lit
run
ISO 639 6
lit
run
Glottocode
lith1251
rund1242
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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