Countries
European Union, Lithuania
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Latvian
Turkish Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1213
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
Ačiū
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
Labanakt
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
Prašom
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
atsiprašau
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
Ate
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
108
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
lituanien
mongol
German Name
Litauisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Mongols
Origin
c. 1503
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
-
Mongolian
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
4426
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
lt
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
mon
ISO 639 2/B
lit
mon
ISO 639 3
lit
mon
ISO 639 6
lit
mon
Glottocode
lith1251
mong1331
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
part of 44-BAA-b
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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