Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Latvian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Ačiū
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Labanakt
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Prašom
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
atsiprašau
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Ate
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Olonets
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1013
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Русский
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Russki
French Name
lituanien
russe
German Name
Litauisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Russians
Origin
c. 1503
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
Baltic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Russian
Language Position
447
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
rus
ISO 639 2/B
lit
rus
ISO 639 3
lit
rus
ISO 639 6
lit
rus
Glottocode
lith1251
russ1263
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic