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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Pan South African Language Board
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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Latvian
Xhosa Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3257
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2050
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Sawubona
Thank You
Ačiū
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
unjani
Good Night
Labanakt
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Labas rytas
okuhle ekuseni
Please
Prašom
Ngiyacela
Sorry
atsiprašau
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Ate
bye
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
500,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
104
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
lituanien
zoulou
German Name
Litauisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Zulu people
Origin
c. 1503
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
Baltic
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Deep Zulu
Language Position
4487
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
zul
ISO 639 2/B
lit
zul
ISO 639 3
lit
zul
ISO 639 6
lit
zul
Glottocode
lith1251
zulu1248
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-