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Lithuanian
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Countries

Countries

European Union, Poland
European Union, Lithuania

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Poland
Lithuania

Second Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Poland

Regulated By

Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Commission of the Lithuanian Language

Interesting Facts

  • Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
  • The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  • Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
  • "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.

Similar To

Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Latvian

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3232
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

912
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2320
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

cześć
Sveiki

Thank You

dziękuję
Ačiū

How Are You?

Jak się masz?
Kaip sekasi?

Good Night

dobranoc
Labanakt

Good Evening

dobry wieczór
Labas vakaras

Good Afternoon

dzień dobry
Laba diena

Good Morning

Dzień dobry
Labas rytas

Please

proszę
Prašom

Sorry

Przepraszam
atsiprašau

Bye

do widzenia
Ate

I Love You

kocham Cię
Aš myliu tave

Excuse Me

przepraszam
Atsiprašau

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kashubian
Samogitian

Where They Speak

Poland
Lithuania

How Many People Speak

108,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Masovian
Aukštaitian

Where They Speak

Poland
Lithuania

How Many People Speak

45,000,000.003,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Silesian
Curonian

Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Poland
Lithuania

How Many People Speak

510,000.003,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3410
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

40.00 million3.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.61 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

40.00 million3.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

40.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Polski
lietuvių kalba

Alternative Names

Polnisch, Polski
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy

French Name

polonais
lituanien

German Name

Polnisch
Litauisch

Pronunciation

[ˈpɔlski]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]

Ethnicity

Poles
Lithuanians

History

Origin

1270
c. 1503

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
-

Branch

Western
Baltic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Polish and Middle Polish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Polish
Lithuanian

Language Position

2444
1 120
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Signed Forms

System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Lithuanian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

pl
lt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

pol
lit

ISO 639 2/B

pol
lit

ISO 639 3

pol
lit

ISO 639 6

pols
lit

Glottocode

poli1260
lith1251

Linguasphere

53-AAA-cc
54-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Polish and Lithuanian Alphabets

Polish and Lithuanian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Polish and Lithuanian. In Polish Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Lithuanian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Polish and Lithuanian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Polish and Lithuanian languages. The Polish phonology consist Polish vowels and Polish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Polish greetings vs Lithuanian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Polish and Lithuanian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Polish and Lithuanian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Polish and Lithuanian dialects. Various dialects of Polish and Lithuanian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Polish are spoken in different Polish Speaking Countries whereas Lithuanian Dialects are spoken in different Lithuanian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Polish vs Lithuanian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Polish dialects include: Kashubian, Masovian. Lithuanian dialects include: Samogitian , Aukštaitian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Polish and Lithuanian Speaking population

Polish and Lithuanian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Polish and Lithuanian languages can be compared. The total count of Polish and Lithuanian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Polish and Lithuanian on Polish vs Lithuanian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Polish and Lithuanian Language Codes

Polish and Lithuanian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Polish and Lithuanian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.