Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Institute for the Bulgarian 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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Latvian
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Ačiū
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Labanakt
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Prašom
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
atsiprašau
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Ate
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
500,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1058
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Balgarski
French Name
lituanien
bulgare
German Name
Litauisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Bulgarian people
Origin
c. 1503
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
Baltic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
4488
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
bul
ISO 639 2/B
lit
bul
ISO 639 3
lit
bul
ISO 639 6
lit
buls
Glottocode
lith1251
bulg1262
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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