What language do Lithuanians talk?

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\%).

Are Latvian and Lithuanian languages similar?

Latvian and Lithuanian are the ONLY two languages that are somewhat similar and come from the same Baltic group where no other languages belong. And this is it, no other language in the World are similar to them. The biggest mistake of foreigners is that both Latvian and Lithuanian are vesrions of Russian – not at all.

What language is closest to Lithuanian?

Latvian
The worldwide population of Lithuanian speakers is estimated at around 3 million (Ethnologue). The closest relative of Lithuanian is Latvian, but the two languages are not mutually intelligible. Both are thought to have evolved from a hypothetical common ancestor called Proto-Balto-Slavic.

What is the most popular language in Lithuania?

Lithuanian
Official Language: Lithuanian Lithuanian is the most popular language in the country, with over 3 million native Lithuanian speakers.

How many languages do Lithuanians speak?

63.0\% of Lithuanians speak Russian, 30.4\% – English, 8.5\% – Polish, and 8.3\% – German. Generation factor still matters a lot, as English and German are most popular among the youth.

What language family does Lithuanian belong to?

Baltic languages
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. They became extinct during the course of history.

What language is spoken in the Baltic?

Baltic languages, group of Indo-European languages that includes modern Latvian and Lithuanian, spoken on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and the extinct Old Prussian, Yotvingian, Curonian, Selonian, and Semigallian languages.

Is Lithuanian like Russian?

Not very closely. Russian is a Slavic language and Lithuanian a Baltic one. Thus, both are Indo-European languages but they belong to different branches of that particular language family. Thus, there is no mutual intelligibility.

Does Lithuania speak Spanish?

Fifth and sixth foreign languages by the number of speakers in Lithuania are French and Spanish, but they are spoken only by some 2\% and 1\% of the population respectively. 2011 census results on the correlation between age and what foreign languages a person can speak.