Countries
European Union, Lithuania
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Lithuania
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Poland
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Latvian
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3232
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Sveiki
hallo
Thank You
Ačiū
Dankie
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Labanakt
goeie nag
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Labas rytas
goeie more
Please
Prašom
asseblief
Sorry
atsiprašau
jammer
Bye
Ate
Totsiens
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Lithuania
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Lithuania
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Namibia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Cape Dutch
French Name
lituanien
afrikaans
German Name
Litauisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Afrikaners
Origin
c. 1503
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
Baltic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
4423
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
afr
ISO 639 2/B
lit
afr
ISO 639 3
lit
afr
ISO 639 6
lit
afrs
Glottocode
lith1251
afri1274
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic