Countries
Wales
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
Poland
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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
English Language
Latvian
Derived From
British Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2932
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
Sveiki
Thank You
Diolch
Ačiū
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Nos da
Labanakt
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
Laba diena
Good Morning
Bore da
Labas rytas
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
Prašom
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
atsiprašau
Bye
Hwyl
Ate
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Argentina
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
38,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
700,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Curonian
Where They Speak
Powys
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
700,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
gallois
lituanien
German Name
Kymrisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Lithuanians
Origin
9th Century
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Celtic
-
Branch
Brythonic
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
No early forms
Standard Forms
Welsh
Lithuanian
Language Position
3144
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
cy
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
lit
ISO 639 2/B
wel
lit
ISO 639 3
cym
lit
ISO 639 6
cym
lit
Glottocode
wels1247
lith1251
Linguasphere
50-ABA
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic