Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Latvian
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2029
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Silaw
Thank You
Ačiū
Sipas
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Labanakt
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Bayanit bash
Please
Prašom
Bê zehmet
Sorry
atsiprašau
Bibûre
Bye
Ate
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Lithuania
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
500,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
lituanien
kurde
German Name
Litauisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Kurds
Origin
c. 1503
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
Baltic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Kurdish
Language Position
4414
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
lt
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
kur
ISO 639 2/B
lit
kur
ISO 639 3
lit
kur
ISO 639 6
lit
kur
Glottocode
lith1251
kurd1259
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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