Lithuanian

E28856

Baltic language Indo-European language natural language

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

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Observed surface forms (3)

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 ⓘ

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

Google Translate → availableLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ

Lithuania → demonym → Lithuanian ⓘ

Lithuanian → hasDialect → Lithuanian self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aukštaitian

Baltic Way → hasLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ

Helsinki Commission → hasLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ

European Union → hasOfficialLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ

Balto-Slavic languages → includesLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Latgalian language

Kaunas County → officialLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ

Lithuania → officialLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ

Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic → officialLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ

Lithuanians → primaryLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lithuanian language

Eva → usedInLanguage → Lithuanian ⓘ