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Name:
Lithuanian
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Lietuviskai; Lietuvi; Litovskiy; Litewski; Litauische; Litauisch; hochlitauische
Spoken in:
USA, Uruguay, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Sweden, Australia, Tajikistan, Estonia, Poland, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Russia, Latvia, Argentina
Number of speakers:
2,960,000 in Lithuania (1998). Population total all countries: 3,154,180
(Ethnologue)
Code:
lit
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Old Lithuanian (090)
Child Dialect Groups:
Aukštaitian; Aukshtaitish; Aukstaičiai; Aukštaitish; High Lithuanian; Aukshtaichiai; Aukstaitiskai; Highland Lithuanian; Aukštaičių (lit-auk)
Samogitian; Žemaitis; Žemaitish; Žemaičiai; Low Lithuanian; Shamaitish; Zhemaitish; Zemaitis; Zemaitiskai; Zemachiai; Lowland Lithuanian; Žemaičių; Žemaitian; Žemaitiu (lit-sha)

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