Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Latvian
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
-
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3262
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
122
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2060
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Ačiū
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
Labanakt
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
Prašom
амритана
Sorry
atsiprašau
Амарахь
Bye
Ate
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
-
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
500,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Sadz
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Turkey
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.00 million0.13 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
lituanien
abkhaze
German Name
Litauisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Abkhaz people
Origin
c. 1503
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Abkhaz
Language Position
4428
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
abk
ISO 639 2/B
lit
abk
ISO 639 3
lit
abk
ISO 639 6
lit
abks
Glottocode
lith1251
abkh1244
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative