Lithuanian

E28856

Lithuanian is a Baltic language spoken primarily in Lithuania and known for preserving many archaic features of Proto-Indo-European.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Lithuanian canonical 43
Lithuanian language 6
Aukštaitian 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Baltic language
Indo-European language
natural language
alphabetSize 32 letters
ancestor Proto-Baltic
Proto-Indo-European
basicWordOrder SVO
closelyRelatedTo Latvian
countryWhereOfficial Lithuania
endangeredStatus not endangered
feature free word stress
grammatical gender
highly inflected morphology
pitch accent system
preservation of archaic Proto-Indo-European features
rich case system
hasDialect Lithuanian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Aukštaitian

Samogitian language
surface form: Samogitian
ISO639-1Code lt
ISO639-2Code lit
ISO639-3Code lit
languageCode lt-LT
languageFamily Baltic
numberOfSpeakers around 3 million
officialStatus official language of Lithuania
one of the official languages of the European Union
primaryRegion Lithuania
regulatingBody State Commission of the Lithuanian Language
SOVPossible yes
spokenIn Belarus
Brazil
Canada
Germany
Ireland
Latvia
Lithuania
Norway
Poland
Russia
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
status living language
subfamily Eastern Baltic language
usedIn Seimas
surface form: Lithuanian government

Lithuanian media
education in Lithuania
usesDiacritics yes
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (52)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Helsinki Commission hasLanguage Lithuanian
Lithuania officialLanguage Lithuanian
Lithuania demonym Lithuanian
Balto-Slavic languages includesLanguage Lithuanian
this entity surface form: Latgalian language
Lithuanian hasDialect Lithuanian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Aukštaitian
Baltic Way hasLanguage Lithuanian
Lithuanians primaryLanguage Lithuanian
this entity surface form: Lithuanian language
Kaunas County officialLanguage Lithuanian
Eva usedInLanguage Lithuanian
Seimas languageOfWork Lithuanian
Marija usedInLanguage Lithuanian
Andris languageOfUse Lithuanian
Old Belarusian influencedBy Lithuanian
Emilis hasLanguageOfUse Lithuanian
Old Prussian language closelyRelatedTo Lithuanian
this entity surface form: Lithuanian language
Samogitian language closelyRelatedTo Lithuanian
this entity surface form: Standard Lithuanian
Western Baltic languages relatedTo Lithuanian
this entity surface form: Lithuanian language
Proto-Balto-Slavic language hasDescendant Lithuanian
this entity surface form: Lithuanian language
Proto-Baltic hasDescendant Lithuanian
Proto-Baltic reconstructedFrom Lithuanian
Latvian closelyRelatedTo Lithuanian
Timoteus usedInLanguage Lithuanian
Jonas Mekas language Lithuanian
Stella usedInLanguage Lithuanian
Leona hasLanguageOfUse Lithuanian
Feliks hasLanguageOfUse Lithuanian
Trakai hasOfficialLanguage Lithuanian
Mindaugas language Lithuanian
Gediminas languageUsed Lithuanian
Algirdas language Lithuanian
Lit-Bel languageUsed Lithuanian
Tatjana languageOfUse Lithuanian
Lithuanian National Revival languageOfWorkOrName Lithuanian
this entity surface form: Lithuanian language
Lithuanian National Revival usedLanguage Lithuanian
this entity surface form: Lithuanian language
Samogitians language Lithuanian
Common Voice dataset hasLanguage Lithuanian
Kaišiadorys officialLanguage Lithuanian
Lithuania Minor language Lithuanian
Kazlų Rūda hasOfficialLanguage Lithuanian
Šakiai officialLanguage Lithuanian