native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 1 million speakers elsewhere. Around half a million inhabitants of Lithuania of non-Lithuanian background...

Lithuania (/ˌlɪθjuˈeɪniə/ LIH-thew-AYN-ee-ə; Lithuanian: Lietuva [lʲiətʊˈvɐ]), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika [lʲiətʊˈvoːs...

of Lithuanian ethnic tribes ('susilieti, lietis' means to unite and the word 'lietuva' means something which has been united). The primary Lithuanian state...

elements in Lithuanian society, meaning that the number of Lithuanian language-speakers decreased with Polonization in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...

civil law, canon law, and tradition. Lithuanian names always follow the rules of the Lithuanian language. Lithuanian male names have preserved the Indo-European...

speaking Lithuanian and Ruthenian, and was able to communicate in the Samogitian dialect of the Lithuanian language. The Lithuanian language was still...

žemaitiu ruoda; Lithuanian: žemaičių tarmė, žemaičių kalba), often considered a dialect of Lithuanian, is an Eastern Baltic language spoken primarily...

Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...

Duchy's documents, the Lithuanian Metrica, the Lithuanian Chronicles and the Statutes of Lithuania, were all written in that language. German, Jewish and...

Lithuanian grammar retains many archaic features from Proto-Balto-Slavic that have been lost in other Balto-Slavic languages. Lithuanian nouns are classified...

Concerning the language, Zinkevičius put forth three possible versions: a Yotvingian dialect under a heavy influence of Lithuanian; Lithuanian words over...

15th to 18th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in East Slavic regions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Regional distribution of those...

Lithuanian orthography employs a Latin-script alphabet of 32 letters, two of which denote sounds not native to the Lithuanian language. Additionally, it...

The Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania or the Szlachta of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuanian: bajorija, šlėkta, Polish: szlachta Wielkiego...

be Prussian dialects.: 15  It is related to the East Baltic languages such as Lithuanian and Latvian, and more distantly related to Slavic. Compare the...

Tatars (Lipka – refers to Lithuania, also known as Lipkas, Lithuanian Tatars; later also – Polish Tatars, Polish–Lithuanian Tatars, Belarusian Tatars...

of Lithuania (Polish: Polacy na Litwie, Lithuanian: Lietuvos lenkai), also called Lithuanian Poles, estimated at 183,000 people in the Lithuanian census...

Lithuanian Sign Language (Lithuanian: Lietuvių gestų kalba, LGK) is the national sign language used in Lithuania, with several regional variants. Very...

Lithuanian mythology (Lithuanian: Lietuvių mitologija) is the mythology of Lithuanian polytheism, the religion of pre-Christian Lithuanians. Like other...

hammer and sickle with the Latin characters LIETUVOS TSR (Lithuanian SSR in the Lithuanian language) above them in gold sans-serif lettering. That flag was...

in the modern Lithuanian orthography) is considered to be the earliest known Lithuanian language name for the coat of arms of Lithuania. In the multilingual...

The Prussian Lithuanians, or Lietuvininkai (singular: Lietuvininkas, plural: Lietuvininkai), are Lithuanians, originally Lithuanian language speakers, who...

Letas [in Lithuanian] (1998). Baltų kalbų gramatinės sistemos raida [Development of the grammatical system of the Baltic Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian...

Lithuania Minor (Lithuanian: Mažoji Lietuva; Polish: Litwa Mniejsza; Russian: Ма́лая Литва́; German: Kleinlitauen), or Prussian Lithuania (Lithuanian:...

the Lithuanian Language (Lithuanian: Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija, VLKK) is the official language regulating body of the Lithuanian language. The...

geographical region Lithuanian language The country of Lithuania Grand Duchy of Lithuania Culture of Lithuania Lithuanian cuisine Lithuanian Jews as often called...

Balts] (in Lithuanian). Zinkevičius, Zigmas (1994). Lietuvių kalba naujaisiais laikais [The Lithuanian Language in Modern Times] (in Lithuanian). Vilnius:...

The Curonian language (German: Kurisch; Latvian: kuršu valoda; Lithuanian: kuršių kalba), or Old Curonian, was a Baltic language spoken by the Curonians...

karalius Vytautas (in Lithuanian) 15min. Petrauskas, R. Lietuvos karalystė [Kingdom of Lithuania]. (in Lithuanian). Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia. Lietuvos...

Lithuanian has a declension system that is similar to declension systems in ancient Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit, Latin or Ancient Greek...