Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Poland
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Latvian
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3229
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
Ačiū
e dupe
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
Labanakt
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
e kaasan
Good Morning
Labas rytas
e kaaro
Please
Prašom
Jowo
Sorry
atsiprašau
binu
Bye
Ate
bye
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
500,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Ede
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1020
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
lituanien
yoruba
German Name
Litauisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Yoruba people
Origin
c. 1503
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Western Sudanic
Branch
Baltic
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Yorùbá
Language Position
4449
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
yor
ISO 639 2/B
lit
yor
ISO 639 3
lit
yor
ISO 639 6
lit
yor
Glottocode
lith1251
yoru1245
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating