Countries
European Union, Lithuania
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Latvian
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3247
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2022
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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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Hello
Sveiki
pranam
Thank You
Ačiū
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Labanakt
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Suprabhaat
Please
Prašom
kripaya
Sorry
atsiprašau
maf karai
Bye
Ate
Alavidā
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
kripaya
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Nepal
How Many People Speak
500,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Lithuania
North India
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Khortha
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1015
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
lituanien
maithili
German Name
Litauisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Maithil
Origin
c. 1503
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Maithili
Language Position
4440
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
mai
ISO 639 2/B
lit
mai
ISO 639 3
lit
mai
ISO 639 6
lit
mai
Glottocode
lith1251
mait1250
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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