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ISO 639-3 · litlit
Indo-European family
Lithuanian
Lietuvių kalba
Lithuanian is a language of the East Baltic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Lithuania, Belarus and Poland. Wikidata counts about 4 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Baltic language spoken in Lithuania”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
lit- ISO 639-1
lt- Glottocode
lith1251- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 55.00, 24.00
- Wikipedia
- 185 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
2scripts
4levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Lithuanian · Lietuvių kalba |
|---|---|
| Also called | Lithuanian language, Lietuvių |
| All speakers | 4,000,000 |
| Written in | Lithuanian alphabet, Lithuanian Braille |
| Official in | Lithuania |
| Grammatical cases | 7 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Lithuanian
The branches above Lithuanian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Lithuania
belBelarusianIndo-European · 7.9 m1 · NationalyidYiddishIndo-European · 1 mDefinitely endangeredrmlBaltic RomaniIndo-European · 50,0005 · DevelopingkdrKaraimTurkic · 808a · MoribundprgOld PrussianIndo-European · 509 · DormantchuChurch SlavonicIndo-European6b · ThreatenedxsvSudovianIndo-EuropeanllsLithuanian Sign Languageunclassified5 · Developing