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search lietuvių kalba Native to Lithuania Native speakers 3.1
million  (1998)[1] Language family Writing system Latin
(Lithuanian alphabet) Lithuanian Braille Official status
Official language in  Lithuania  European Union Recognised
minority language in  Poland  United States Regulated by
Commission of the Lithuanian Language Language codes ISO 639-1
lt ISO 639-2 lit ISO 639-3 lit Linguasphere 54-AAA-a    Area of
the Lithuanian language in the 16th century The oldest surviving
manuscript in Lithuanian (around 1503), rewritten from 15th
century original text A map of European languages (1741) with
the first verse of the Lord's Prayer in Lithuanian Distribution
of the Baltic tribes, circa 1200 CE (boundaries are
approximate).   Among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian is
extraordinarily conservative, retaining many archaic features
otherwise found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit