Latvian in Lithuania

Speakers

1,572

Type

Location

Latvian in Lithuania

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Latvian in Lithuania

Size

1,572

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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

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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

Size / Number of users

Number of users

1572
Source
Population census
Year
2021

Users within total population

0.06000
Less than 1% use the language

PROPORTION

0
Source
Population census
Year
2021

Users within the reference community

Less than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
50
Source
Population census
Year
2021

Age distribution of users

87
6
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Age distribution of users

807
51
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Age distribution of users

678
43
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

Population census

Year
2021

Generational use

50
50
781
All generations
Source

General census

Year
2021
Comments

No data on gender distribution available

Educational attainment

No education
No education
No education
No education
No education

Occupational qualifications

91
Elementary occupations
Source

Population census

Comments

No data on gender distribution available

66
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
Comments

No data on gender distribution available

95
Craft and related trades workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
Comments

No data on gender distribution available

24
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
Comments

No data on gender distribution available

93
Services and sales workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
Comments

No data on gender distribution available

29
Clerical support workers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
Comments

No data on gender distribution available

33
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

Population census

Year
2021
Comments

No data on gender distribution available

153
Professionals
Source

Population census

Year
2021
Comments

No data on gender distribution available

61
Managers
Source

Population census

Year
2021
Comments

No data on gender distribution available

Language competence

Comments

No data

Understand little, speak/sign none
Comments

No data

Understand some, speak/sign little
Comments

No data

Understand well, speak/sign some
Comments

No data

Understand all, speak/sign well
Comments

No data

Understand all, speak/sign fluently
Comments

No data

Literacy of users

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

Population census

Year
2021

Digital use

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

Information Society Development Committee

Year
2022
Comments

Data aggregated for Lithuania as a whole, not detailed by nationality and 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
Comments

No data

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

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

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

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

Legal system

Completion