Lithuanian in Lithuania

Speakers

2,378,118

Type

Location

Lithuanian in Lithuania

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Lithuanian in Lithuania

Size

2,378,118

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
No
Comments
State language status is enshrined in the Constitution of Lithuania

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban

Size / Number of users

Number of users

2378118
Source
Population census
Year
2021

Users within total population

85.00000
More than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

85
Source
Population census
Year
2021

Users within the reference community

100 % use the language
Actual percentage
100

Age distribution of users

374,270
16
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Age distribution of users

1,546,334
65
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Age distribution of users

457,500
19
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Generational use

100
100
2,378,118
All generations
Year
2021

Educational attainment

0
0
Early childhood education
0
0
Early childhood education
0
0
Primary education
0
0
Lower secondary education
0
0
Higher secondary education
0
0
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

46
55
105,546
Elementary occupations
Source

Population census

Year
2021
84
16
99,995
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
76
25
140,353
Craft and related trades workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
56
45
32,443
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
27
73
37,682
Services and sales workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
29
71
48,609
Clerical support workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
47
53
44,888
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

Population census

Year
2021
31
69
286,022
Professionals
Source

Population census

Year
2021
61
39
72,905
Managers
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Language competence

Language not used
0
0
Understand little, speak/sign none
0
0
Understand some, speak/sign little
0
0
Understand well, speak/sign some
0
0
Understand all, speak/sign well
100
100
2,378,118
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

100
100
(Almost) 100 % of users with literacy in the language
Actual percentage
100

Digital use

87
87
More than 50% digital users of the language
Actual percentage
87
Source

Information Society Development Committee

Year
2021
Comments

Survey data not disaggregated by gender

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Stability
Increasing

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Language is used for

  • Census data
  • Census surveys
  • Election processes
  • Topographical signs

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Type of language use in education
  • Medium of instruction
  • Immersion teaching
  • Teaching subject
  • Occasionally used
  • Symbolically used
Primary level
Type of language use in education
  • Medium of instruction
  • Immersion teaching
  • Teaching subject
  • Occasionally used
  • Symbolically used
Lower secondary level
Type of language use in education
  • Medium of instruction
  • Immersion teaching
  • Teaching subject
  • Occasionally used
  • Symbolically used
Higher secondary level
Type of language use in education
  • Medium of instruction
  • Immersion teaching
  • Teaching subject
  • Occasionally used
  • Symbolically used
Tertiary level
Type of language use in education
  • Medium of instruction
  • Immersion teaching
  • Teaching subject
  • Occasionally used
  • Symbolically used

Public healthcare

  • Language not used
  • Translations
  • Healthcare information
  • Nursing care (incl. elderly)
  • Doctor-patient communication
  • Generally used

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
Specify
Everywhere
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International
Comments
Mandatory use of the Lithuanian language in courts is regulated by the Law on the State Language

Completion