Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Latvian
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2022
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
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
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Labanakt
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Prašom
будь ласк
Sorry
atsiprašau
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Ate
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Podillian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Volynian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Steppe
Where They Speak
Lithuania
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1015
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
lituanien
ukrainien
German Name
Litauisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Ukrainians
Origin
c. 1503
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
Baltic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
4426
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
lit
ukr
ISO 639 3
lit
ukr
ISO 639 6
lit
ukr
Glottocode
lith1251
ukra1253
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic