Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Lithuania
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Latvian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Sveiki
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Ačiū
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Labanakt
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Prašom
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
atsiprašau
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Ate
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Olonets
Dialect 3
Curonian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
Русский
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Russki
French Name
lituanien
russe
German Name
Litauisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Russians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
lith1251
russ1263
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Lithuanian and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Lithuanian and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Russian language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Russian Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Lithuanian and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.