Countries
European Union, Lithuania
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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.
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Latvian
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3225
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Halo
Thank You
Ačiū
Hvala
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Kako se imate?
Good Night
Labanakt
Lahko noč
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Dober dan
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Dobro jutro
Please
Prašom
Prosim
Sorry
atsiprašau
Oprostite
Bye
Ate
Nasvidenje
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Resian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Italy
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Styrian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1048
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
lituanien
slovène
German Name
Litauisch
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Slovenes
Origin
c. 1503
972-1093
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Slovene
Language Position
4428
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
slv
ISO 639 2/B
lit
slv
ISO 639 3
lit
slv
ISO 639 6
lit
slv
Glottocode
lith1251
slov1268
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
53-AAA-f
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional