Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Latvian
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2025
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Ačiū
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Labanakt
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Prašom
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
atsiprašau
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
Ate
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Serbia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million8.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Montenegrin
French Name
lituanien
serbe
German Name
Litauisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Serbs
Origin
c. 1503
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Serbian
Language Position
4444
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
srp
ISO 639 2/B
lit
srp
ISO 639 3
lit
srp
ISO 639 6
lit
srp
Glottocode
lith1251
serb1264
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-