| Language name: | LITHUANIAN |
| UPSID number: | 2007 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Indo-European, Baltic |
| This language has | 52 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.202626642 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b "t "d k g "ts "dz v S Z x m r pJ bJ "tJ "dJ kJ gJ tS dZ vJ SJ ZJ mJ lJ rJ i: e: aa: u: o: I U a j "tsJ s sJ z n nJ l a_: au ie aai ai ui uo aa |
| Comment: | Lithuanian is spoken in USSR. E and O occur as short vowels but appear predictable from stress. |
| Source(s): | Ambrazas, V., Vajtkavichjute, V., Valjatskene, A., Morkunas, K., Sabaljauskas, A., and Ul'vidas, K. 1966. Litovskij jazyk. In V.V. Vinogradov (ed.), Jazyki Narodov SSSR, Vol.1. Nauka, Leningrad and Moscow: 500-27. Augustitis, D. 1964. Das Lithauische Phonationssystem. Sagner, Munich. Senn, A. 1966. Handbuch der Litauischen Sprache, Band 1: Grammatik. Winter, Heidelberg. |