Lithuanian Letters 2.1.1. Main alphabet Lithuanian by its grammatical structure is one of the most ancient languages of living Indo-European languages. It is spoken approximately by 5 millions people and is delivered at many Universities all over the world for linguistic studies. Thus there are no problems to use them. Its constitutive function manifests itself in distinguishing word from a combination of words, cf.
Word stress is expressed by the means of accented letters.
The accented letters together with main letters comprise the extended alphabet. Usage of accented letters goes back to the first Lithuanian writings. At present, the publishing practice all dictionaries, special vocabularies and encycklopaediae are accented. Accented letters are used in textbooks for schools, reference books, linguistic texts, and in publication of laws. Accented letters are used only in those words where it has a distinctive function.