Lithuanian
Baltic language spoken in Lithuania
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Lithuanian is a language spoken in Lithuania. [1] It is the official language of Lithuania, where it serves as the primary means of communication for the country's population. [2]
Key Facts
- Country: Lithuania[3], Belarus[4], Poland[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6]
- Subclass of: East Baltic[7]
- Writing system: Lithuanian alphabet[8], Lithuanian Braille[9]
- Commons category: Lithuanian language[10]
- Wikimedia language code: lt[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Lithuanian language[12]
- Language regulatory body: Commission of the Lithuanian Language[13]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 4,000,000[14]
- Time of earliest written record: 1515[15]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[18]
- Native label: Lietuvių kalba[19], Lietuviškai[20]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C154003[21]
- Short name: литовски[22], litova[23]
- Different from: Lithuanian[24]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[25]
- Indigenous to: Lithuania[26]
- Female form of label: la langue lituanienne[27]
- Studied by: Lithuanian studies[28]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LIT[29]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[30], genitive case[31], dative case[32], accusative case[33], instrumental case[34], locative case[35], vocative case[36]
- Has tense: present tense[37], past tense[38], future tense[39]
- Has grammatical mood: permissive[40]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[41]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[42], fusional language[43], adjective-noun[44], synthetic language[45], stress[46]
Why It Matters
Lithuanian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] Lithuanian is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]