Countries
European Union, Lithuania
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Poland
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Latvian
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3253
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2043
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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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Hello
Sveiki
Molo
Thank You
Ačiū
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Unjani
Good Night
Labanakt
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Molo
Please
Prašom
Ndicela
Sorry
atsiprašau
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Ate
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Lithuania
South Africa
How Many People Speak
500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Thembu
Where They Speak
Lithuania
South Africa
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Lithuania
South Africa
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
109
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
lituanien
xhosa
German Name
Litauisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
c. 1503
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
Baltic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
isiXhosa
Language Position
4421
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
xho
ISO 639 2/B
lit
xho
ISO 639 3
lit
xho
ISO 639 6
lit
xho
Glottocode
lith1251
xhos1239
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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