Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Poland
Palau
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Latvian
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3299
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2014
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Ačiū
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Labanakt
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Labas rytas
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Prašom
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
atsiprašau
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Ate
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Hakata
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Lithuania
kansai
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1031
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %1.90 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
日本語
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Nihongo
French Name
lituanien
japonais
German Name
Litauisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
c. 1503
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Japanese
Language Position
448
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
lit
jpn
ISO 639 3
lit
jpn
ISO 639 6
lit
jpn
Glottocode
lith1251
nucl1643
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic