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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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