Countries
Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Latvian
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2028
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Sveiki
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Ačiū
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Labanakt
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Prašom
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
atsiprašau
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Ate
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
500,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Kartli
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1020
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
lituanien
géorgien
German Name
Litauisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Georgians
History
Origin
c. 1503
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
-
Southern
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Modern Georgian
Language Position
44120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
Code
ISO 639 1
lt
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
kat
ISO 639 2/B
lit
geo
ISO 639 3
lit
kat
ISO 639 6
lit
kat
Glottocode
lith1251
nucl1302
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic