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Language code: lit

Technical information about ISO 639 language code lit

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The table below provides technical details for the Lithuanian language, designated by the lit code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

lit

Name

Official

Lithuanian

Native

Lietuvių kalba

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Aukštaitian (Highland Lithuanian)Samogitian (Žemaitian, Lowland Lithuanian)
Related languages
LatvianLatgalian
Key facts
Considered one of the most conservative living Indo-European languages, preserving many Proto-Indo-European featuresRetains seven grammatical noun cases and rich verb inflectionEmploys a 32-letter Latin alphabet with unique diacritics such as ą, ę, ė, į, ų and ūHas a free, phonemic stress with a two-tone pitch accent systemThe first printed Lithuanian book was the Catechism by Martynas Mažvydas in 1547
Sample phrase

Labas, kaip sekasi?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-4, ISO 8859-13, Windows 1257, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Lithuanian language, identified by the code lit, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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