Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
India
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Latvian
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3295
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2030
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Ačiū
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Labanakt
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Labas rytas
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Prašom
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
atsiprašau
Tsip maza
Bye
Ate
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Laya
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Lunana
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Adap
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
104
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
lituanien
dzongkha
German Name
Litauisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Ngalop people
Origin
c. 1503
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Dzongkha
Language Position
4431
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
lit
dzo
ISO 639 3
lit
dzo
ISO 639 6
lit
dzo
Glottocode
lith1251
nucl1307
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-