Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Poland
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Norwegian Language 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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Latvian
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3229
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
hallo
Thank You
Ačiū
takk
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Labanakt
god natt
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Labas rytas
god morgen
Please
Prašom
Vær så snill
Sorry
atsiprašau
unnskyld
Bye
Ate
ha det
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Sogn
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Curonian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1019
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
3.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.00 million5.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Norsk
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Norsk
French Name
lituanien
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Litauisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Norwegians
Origin
c. 1503
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
Baltic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
4418
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
lt
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
nor
ISO 639 2/B
lit
nor
ISO 639 3
lit
nor
ISO 639 6
lit
nor
Glottocode
lith1251
norw1258
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional