Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba) is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 3.2 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 200000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language closely related to Latvian although they are not mutually intelligible. It is written in a Latin alphabet.
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