Lithuanian is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2022 estimate, native speakers. Partially Attested
Attested From (Year)Earliest recorded single word (the interjection Ba, 24 December 1207, from the chronicle of Henry of Latvia), not a continuous text. Classification
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Difficulty for an English Speaker Lithuanian
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It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union.
Sources
1. Glottolog: Lithuanian (Glottolog languoid lith1251)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Lithuanian Language
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Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba, pronounced [lʲiəˈtʊvʲuː kɐɫˈbɐ]) is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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2022
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It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union.
History, earliest recorded word
The earliest known recorded Lithuanian word, reported to have been said on 24 December 1207 from the chronicle of Henry of Latvia
Official status, Lithuanian entity page
It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union.
View the Source 3. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Lithuanian / Order of Subject, Object and Verb (WALS datapoint)
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Feature: Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer Value: SVO
4. Effective Language Learning: Language Difficulty Ranking
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Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours) Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English Albanian Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Croatian Czech * Estonian * Finnish * Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi * Hungarian Icelandic Khmer Lao Latvian Lithuanian
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