Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Latvian
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3246
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2038
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Ahoj
Thank You
Ačiū
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
Labanakt
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Labas rytas
Dobré ráno
Please
Prašom
Prosím
Sorry
atsiprašau
Pardón!
Bye
Ate
Dovidenia
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
500,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
104
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
lituanien
slovaque
German Name
Litauisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Slovaks
Origin
c. 1503
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
Baltic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Slovak
Language Position
4427
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
slk
ISO 639 2/B
lit
slo
ISO 639 3
lit
slk
ISO 639 6
lit
slk
Glottocode
lith1251
slov1269
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic