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Lithuanian Language



Countries

Countries
European Union, Lithuania

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Lithuania

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Europe

Minority Language
Poland

Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.

Similar To
Latvian

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
32 14

Phonology

How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Sveiki

Thank You
Ačiū

How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?

Good Night
Labanakt

Good Evening
Labas vakaras

Good Afternoon
Laba diena

Good Morning
Labas rytas

Please
Prašom

Sorry
atsiprašau

Bye
Ate

I Love You
Aš myliu tave

Excuse Me
Atsiprašau

Dialects

Dialect 1
Samogitian

Where They Speak
Lithuania

How Many People Speak
500,000.00 68

Dialect 2
Aukštaitian

Where They Speak
Lithuania

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00 51

Dialect 3
Curonian

Where They Speak
Lithuania

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00 44

Total No. Of Dialects
10 10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.00 million 77

Speaking Population
0.07 % 58

Native Speakers
3.00 million 74

Second Language Speakers
3.00 million 54

Native Name
lietuvių kalba

Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy

French Name
lituanien

German Name
Litauisch

Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]

Ethnicity
Lithuanians

History

Origin
c. 1503

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
Baltic

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Lithuanian

Language Position
44 41

Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
lt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
lit

ISO 639 2/B
lit

ISO 639 3
lit

ISO 639 6
lit

Glottocode
lith1251

Linguasphere
54-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic

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Origin of Lithuanian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Lithuanian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Lithuanian language states that it was put to use in c. 1503. The history of Lithuanian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Lithuanian Language History. Lithuanian has no early forms. Lithuanian is the standard form of Lithuanian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Lithuanian Language.

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Lithuanian population

Lithuanian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Lithuanian language. Lithuanian language is spoken by 3.00 million people in the world. Most of the Lithuanian population lies in the Lithuanian Speaking Countries. Lithuanian language is spoken as first language by 3.00 million people and as second language by about 3.00 million people. Get to know Lithuanian speaking population in detail.

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Lithuanian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Lithuanian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Lithuanian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Lithuanian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Lithuanian language

Check out all the information about Lithuanian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Lithuanian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Lithuanian Speaking Countries, Lithuanian speaking continents and Lithuanian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Lithuanian countries knowing common Lithuanian Greetings will help you in communicating with Lithuanian people.

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