one of the chancellery[clarification needed] languages by Lithuanian monarchs. However, there are fewer extant documents written in this language than...
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Indo-European language family. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European...
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Lithuania (/ˌlɪθjuˈeɪniə/ LITH-ew-AY-nee-ə; Lithuanian: Lietuva [lʲiətʊˈvɐ]), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika [lʲiətʊˈvoːs...
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the Lithuanian diaspora, largely found in countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and Canada. Their native language is Lithuanian, one...
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languages, religion, and cultural heritage. The consolidation of the Lithuanian lands began in the late 13th century. Mindaugas, the first ruler of the...
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lists some names of places in Lithuania, as they are called in Lithuanian, and as they are called or were formerly called in other languages spoken by ethnic...
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The history of Lithuania dates back to settlements founded about 10,000 years ago, but the first written record of the name for the country dates back...
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other Romance languages like Italian and French as well as Germanic languages (most notably German), which contributed to a large number of loanwords and...
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Lithuanian Sign Language (Lithuanian: Lietuvių gestų kalba, LGK) is the national sign language used in Lithuania, with several regional variants. Very...
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Lipka Tatars (redirect from Lithuania Tatars)
their original Tatar language, from the Kipchak group of the Turkic languages and for the most part adopted Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Polish. There are...
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years in the environment of the Lithuanian, Russian, and Polish languages. Most of the religious terminology in the Karaim language is Arabic in etymology...
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Slavic language. It is one of the two official languages in Belarus, alongside Russian. Additionally, it is spoken in some parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia...
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create the name; they used the existing Lithuanian ethnonym. The Lithuanian diphthong -ie- has, in Slavic languages, shifted to the vowel -i- (и), and the...
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periodization of the literary language into: Early Ruthenian, dating from the separation of Lithuanian and Muscovite chancery languages (15th century)...
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Northern Europe (redirect from History of Northern Europe)
first languages of Finland and Estonia respectively. The Baltic languages of Lithuanian and Latvian are the most common first languages of Lithuania and...
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In Lithuania, there are 103 cities (in Lithuanian: singular – miestas, plural – miestai). The term city is defined by the Parliament of Lithuania as a...
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primarily consists of two extant languages—Latvian and Lithuanian. Occasionally, Latgalian and Samogitian are viewed as distinct languages, though they are...
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The Institute of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuanian: Lietuvių kalbos institutas) in Vilnius is a state-funded research institute that focuses on research...
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Republic of Central Lithuania (Polish: Republika Litwy Środkowej, Lithuanian: Vidurio Lietuvos Respublika), commonly known as the Central Lithuania, and the...
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Neman river in what is now Lithuania, east of Galindia and in the north of Yotvingia, and by exiles in East Prussia. The language is referred to as Yotvingian...
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Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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significant enough to treat them as two separate languages within the Central Zone (Hindustani) group of languages. The Dom and the Rom therefore likely descend...
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Poles of Lithuania (Polish: Polacy na Litwie, Lithuanian: Lietuvos lenkai), also called Lithuanian Poles, estimated at 183,000 people in the Lithuanian census...
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Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuanian: Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija, VLKK) is the official language regulating body of the Lithuanian language...
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Vytautas (redirect from Witowt of Lithuania)
a ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He was also the prince of Grodno (1370–1382), prince of Lutsk (1387–1389), and the postulated king of the Hussites...
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Baltic languages are a group of extinct Baltic languages that were spoken by West Baltic peoples. West Baltic is one of the two primary branches of Baltic...
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has been Lithuania's official coat of arms and is one of the oldest European coats of arms. It is also known by other names in various languages, such as...
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Samogitia (redirect from Lower Lithuania)
of the two core administrative divisions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania alongside Lithuania proper. Žemaitija is located in northwestern Lithuania....
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southeastern Latvia and northeastern Lithuania. The language persisted until the 16th century. Traces of the Selonian language can still be found in the territories...
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Culture of Lithuania combines an indigenous heritage, represented by the unique Lithuanian language, with Nordic cultural aspects and Catholic traditions...
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