Countries
European Union, Lithuania
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Latvian
Munda Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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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Hello
Sveiki
Henda ho
Thank You
Ačiū
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Labanakt
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Boge Setak’
Please
Prašom
দয়া করে
Sorry
atsiprašau
দুঃখিত
Bye
Ate
Hariau
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Mahali
Where They Speak
Lithuania
India
How Many People Speak
500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Not present
Where They Speak
Lithuania
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Not present
Where They Speak
Lithuania
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
101
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
lituanien
santal
German Name
Litauisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
c. 1503
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Santali
Language Position
4441
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
sat
ISO 639 2/B
lit
sat
ISO 639 3
lit
sat
ISO 639 6
lit
sat
Glottocode
lith1251
sant1410
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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