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Preferred term

litLithuanian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba) is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.9 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 300 000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they are not mutually intelligible. It is written in an adapted version of the Roman script. The Lithuanian language is believed to be the most conservative living Indo-European language, retaining many features of Proto Indo-European now lost in other Indo-European languages.

Entry terms

  • Lithuanian language

ISO 639-1 code

  • lt

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • lit

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • lit

ISO 639-3 code

  • lit

Notation

  • lit

In other languages

  • lituanien

    French

  • Lituanien
  • Litauisch

    German

  • Litauische Sprache
  • lituano

    Italian

  • Lingua lituana
  • Portuguese

  • Língua lituana
  • lituano

    Spanish

  • Idioma lituano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/lit

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