What is Lithuanian language?
{{Infobox Language |name=Lithuanian |nativename=lietuvių kalba |states = [[Lithuania]] |region = [[Europe]] |speakers = 2.96 million ([[Lithuania]])<br />170,000 (Abroad)<br />3.13 million (Worldwide)<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lit Ethnologue report for language code:lit<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |familycolor = Indo-European |fam1 = [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] |fam2 = [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]] |fam3 = [[Baltic languages|Baltic]] |fam4 = [[East Baltic languages|Eastern Baltic]] |dia1 = [[Samogitian dialect|Samogitian]], [[Aukštaitian dialect|Aukštaitian]] |iso1 = lt |iso2 = lit |iso3 = lit |lingua = 54-AAA-a |script = [[Roman alphabet|Roman script]] |nation = {{flag|Lithuania}}<br>{{flag|European Union}} |minority = {{flag|Poland}} |agency = [[Commission of the Lithuanian Language]] |notice = IPA }} The '''Lithuanian language''' is a [[Baltic languages|Baltic language]]. It is from [[Lithuania]], spoken in a few countries in [[Europe]], as well as in [[the Americas]] and [[Australia]]. Lithuanian and [[Latvian language|Latvian]] are the only remaining Baltic languages. Both languages have much in common. Lithuanian, however, adopted fewer words and phrases from [[German language|German]] and other languages. However, many words were adopted into Lithuanian by [[Slavic languages]] long ago, but in 1920, Lithuanian [[Philology|philologis]]<nowiki/>t Jonas Jablonskis and others replaced them with native Lithuanian words. [[File:Mazvydo katekizmas.jpg|thumb|left|The front cover of the ''Katekizmas'', published in [[East Prussia]] in 1547.]] There are two main [[dialect]]s of Lithuanian. ''Samogitian'' is used mostly in West Lithuania, and the other that is widely used in the whole country is ''Aukštaitian'' (Highlanders' dialect). The standard Lithuanian comes from West Aukštaitian. The first book written in Lith