Countries
European Union, Slovenia
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Poland
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
- 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
Serbo-Croatian
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2532
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
Sveiki
Thank You
Hvala
Ačiū
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Lahko noč
Labanakt
Good Evening
Dober večer
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
Laba diena
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
Labas rytas
Please
Prosim
Prašom
Sorry
Oprostite
atsiprašau
Bye
Nasvidenje
Ate
I Love You
Ljubim te
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Oprostite
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
80,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Resian
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Italy
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Styrian
Curonian
Where They Speak
Slovenia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
4810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
2.50 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Slovenščina
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
slovène
lituanien
German Name
Slowenisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Slovenes
Lithuanians
Origin
972-1093
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Slovene
Lithuanian
Language Position
2844
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovene Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sl
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slv
lit
ISO 639 2/B
slv
lit
ISO 639 3
slv
lit
ISO 639 6
slv
lit
Glottocode
slov1268
lith1251
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic