Countries
European Union, Lithuania
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Latvian
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3248
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Ačiū
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Labanakt
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Labas rytas
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Prašom
कृपया
Sorry
atsiprašau
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Ate
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Nepal
How Many People Speak
500,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Lithuania
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
lituanien
népalais
German Name
Litauisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
c. 1503
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Baltic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Nepali
Language Position
4459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
lt
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
nep
ISO 639 2/B
lit
nep
ISO 639 3
lit
npi
ISO 639 6
lit
nep
Glottocode
lith1251
nepa1254
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative