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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

lt

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

Supported in Localizely

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

Speakers

Lithuania

2.4M

Poland

5.4K

*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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