Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Hawaii
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Latvian
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
您好
Thank You
Ačiū
谢谢
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
你好吗?
Good Night
Labanakt
晚安
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
下午好
Good Morning
Labas rytas
早上好
Please
Prašom
请
Sorry
atsiprašau
遗憾
Bye
Ate
再见
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
我爱你
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
原谅我
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Lithuania
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
500,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
103
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
lituanien
cantonais
German Name
Litauisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Han Chinese
Origin
c. 1503
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
441
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
lt
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
yue
ISO 639 2/B
lit
yue
ISO 639 3
lit
No data available
ISO 639 6
lit
yue
Glottocode
lith1251
cant1236
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-