Countries
European Union, Lithuania
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Lithuania
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Latvian
Japanese and Korean Languages
Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
Chinese.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
Sveiki
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Ačiū
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Labanakt
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Sorry
atsiprašau
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Lithuania
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
Lithuania
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Lithuania
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
lituanien
chinois
German Name
Litauisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Han
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
lith1251
sini1245
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Lithuanian and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Lithuanian and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Chinese language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Lithuanian and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.