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Lithuanian

 
Dictionary: Lith·u·a·ni·an   (lĭth'ū-ā'nē-ən) pronunciation

adj.
Of or relating to Lithuania or its people, language, or culture.

n.
    1. A native or inhabitant of Lithuania.
    2. A person of Lithuanian ancestry.
  1. The Baltic language of the Lithuanians.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: Lithuanian
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Lithuanian (lĭth'ūā'nēən), a language belonging to the Baltic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Baltic languages). The official language of Lithuania since 1918, Lithuanian is spoken by approximately 3 million people there and by an additional half-million elsewhere in the world, chiefly in the Western Hemisphere. The importance of Lithuanian in linguistic studies stems from its designation as the most ancient of the living Indo-European languages. It is also the language closest to Proto-Indo-European, the ancestral tongue from which all the Indo-European languages evolved. Currently, Lithuanian uses a modified Roman alphabet for writing.

Bibliography

See L. Dambriunas et al., Introduction to Modern Lithuanian (1980).


WordNet: Lithuanian
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the official language of Lithuania; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo European


The adjective Lithuanian has one meaning:

Meaning #1: of or relating to or characteristic of Lithuania or its people or language
  Pertains to noun: Lithuania (meaning #1)


Wikipedia: Lithuanian
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Lithuanian may refer to:


Translations: Lithuanian
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - litauisk
n. - litauer

Nederlands (Dutch)
Litouwer, Litouws

Français (French)
adj. - lituanien
n. - Lituanien

Deutsch (German)
n. - Litauer, Litauisch
adj. - litauisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - Λιθουανός
adj. - λιθουανικός, Λιθουανός

Italiano (Italian)
lituano

Português (Portuguese)
n., -
adj. - lituano (m)

Русский (Russian)
литовец, литовка, литовский язык, литовский

Español (Spanish)
adj. - lituanos, lituano, de Lituania
n. - lituanos, lituano

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - litauer, litauiska (språket)
adj. - litauisk

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
立陶宛的, 立陶宛语的, 立陶宛人的, 立陶宛人, 立陶宛语

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 立陶宛的, 立陶宛語的, 立陶宛人的
n. - 立陶宛人, 立陶宛語

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 리투아니아의, 리투아니아인의
n. - 리투아니아인, 리투아니아어

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - リトアニアの, リトアニア人の, リトアニア語の
n. - リトアニア人, リトアニア語

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الليتواني, أحد أبناء لتوانيا, الليتوانيه, لغه الليتوانيين (صفه) ليتواني‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮ליטאי, של ליטא‬
n. - ‮ליטאי/ת, ליטאית (שפה)‬


 
 
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