Language code: lt
Technical information about ISO 639 language code lt
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The table below provides technical details for the Lithuanian language, designated by the lt code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Lithuanian Native Lietuvių kalba |
| Family | Baltic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | AukštaitianSamogitian |
| Related languages | LatvianLatgalianOld Prussian |
| Key facts | One of the oldest surviving Indo-European languages, preserving features found in Sanskrit and Ancient GreekEmploys pitch accent and vowel-length contrasts that change meaningThe first known Lithuanian book was a 1547 catechism by Martynas MažvydasHas seven grammatical cases and richly inflected verbsStandard Lithuanian is chiefly based on the West Aukštaitian dialect |
| Sample phrase | Labas, kaip sekasi? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-4, ISO 8859-13, Windows 1257, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
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Lithuanian belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Baltic subgroup. It is the official language of Lithuania and is also used by the Lithuanian minority in specific areas near the Lithuania-Poland border. It is written using the Latin script (Lithuanian alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 3 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Lithuanian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
lt-LT – Lithuanian (Lithuania)
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- GitHub integration
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- Supported file formats
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ