What is the dialect in Lithuania?

Lithuanian
Lithuania/Official languages

Is Lithuanian language unique?

Our language is unique The oldest still-living Indo-European language has been researched by scientists to this day. What do you need to know about Lithuanian? It has no articles, and uses word endings instead of prepositions to indicate relationships between words in a sentence.

How many languages are spoken in Lithuania?

Since 1991, the official language of Lithuania is the Baltic language of Lithuanian, a language closely related to Latvian. More than 80\% of the country’s 3.8m population speaks Lithuanian as their first language. Minority languages include Belarusian (1.5\%), Polish (7.7\%), Russian (8\%).

Is Lithuanian language similar to Polish?

They’re from different language groups. Polish is Western Slavic, Lithuanian is Baltic. There is something like “Balto-Slavic group of Indo-European languages”, but is purely academic classification and has nothing to do with real life.

What languages are similar to Lithuanian?

Lithuanian belongs to the family of Baltic languages. Currently there are only two Baltic languages spoken in the world: Lithuanian and Latvian but in the past there were more, such as: Galindian, old Prussian, Yotvingian, Skalvian, Selonian, Semigallian.

Is Lithuanian a hard language?

Compared to English, Lithuanian is a very difficult language to learn. Besides, if you are going to visit/work in Lithuania (or just want to learn), most people here know Russian and/or English already. If you just want to learn it for fun, you’re always welcome to do so.

What language do they speak in Lithuania?

The official language of Lithuania is Lithuanian. This is a Baltic language, based on the Latin alphabet . Most of the population also speak another language, with English and Russian being the two major second languages.

Do people speak English in Lithuania?

Yes, most Lithuanians speak English. The ones who don’t are simply uneducated or grew up in Soviet times and never cared for learning. Your best bet is to speak with someone who’s >40 years old.

What is local and foreign languages Lithuanian people speak?

Lithuanian 95.47\%

What Slavic language is closer to Lithuanian?

The Old Belarusian is the closest Slavic language. I think Lithuanian has about 3\% similarity to Russian via words and grammar, but also the old Albanian is very similar to Lithuanian if you are very carefullly considering it. Also, Latin, Portuguese, English etc. have similarities to Lithuanian.