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Countries

Countries

European Union, Lithuania
European Union, Poland

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Lithuania
Poland

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Poland
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)

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.
  • Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
  • The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.

Similar To

Latvian
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3232
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

129
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2023
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
cześć

Thank You

Ačiū
dziękuję

How Are You?

Kaip sekasi?
Jak się masz?

Good Night

Labanakt
dobranoc

Good Evening

Labas vakaras
dobry wieczór

Good Afternoon

Laba diena
dzień dobry

Good Morning

Labas rytas
Dzień dobry

Please

Prašom
proszę

Sorry

atsiprašau
Przepraszam

Bye

Ate
do widzenia

I Love You

Aš myliu tave
kocham Cię

Excuse Me

Atsiprašau
przepraszam

Dialects

Dialect 1

Samogitian
Kashubian

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Poland

How Many People Speak

500,000.00108,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Aukštaitian
Masovian

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Poland

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Curonian
Silesian

Where They Speak

Lithuania
Czech Republic, Poland

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00510,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1034
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

3.00 million40.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.61 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.00 million40.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million40.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

lietuvių kalba
Polski

Alternative Names

Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Polnisch, Polski

French Name

lituanien
polonais

German Name

Litauisch
Polnisch

Pronunciation

[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈpɔlski]

Ethnicity

Lithuanians
Poles

History

Origin

c. 1503
1270

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Slavic

Branch

Baltic
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish

Standard Forms

Lithuanian
Polish

Language Position

4424
1 120
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Signed Forms

Lithuanian Sign Language
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lt
pl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lit
pol

ISO 639 2/B

lit
pol

ISO 639 3

lit
pol

ISO 639 6

lit
pols

Glottocode

lith1251
poli1260

Linguasphere

54-AAA-a
53-AAA-cc

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Lithuanian and Polish Alphabets

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

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

Lithuanian and Polish Speaking population

Lithuanian and Polish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Lithuanian and Polish languages can be compared. The total count of Lithuanian and Polish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 %. 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 Polish on Lithuanian vs Polish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Lithuanian and Polish Language Codes

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