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Lithuanian–Samogitian translator
Translate between Lithuanian and Northern Samogitian. Choose a direction, enter your text and translate locally in your browser.
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About this language profile
Northern Samogitian spelling · Telšiai–Plungė profile
What the tool does
Translate Lithuanian sentences into Samogitian or read Samogitian text in standard Lithuanian. The tool uses sentence context, grammatical forms and traditional Northern Samogitian spelling. Your text stays in your browser during translation.
Grammar and spelling
The translator covers word inflection, case agreement, verb person, dual forms and habitual past constructions. Its rules draw on published linguistic sources, public Lithuanian language data and reviewed translation pairs.
Samogitian varieties
Samogitian has Northern, Southern, and Western varieties plus many local forms. This tool follows the traditional Northern Samogitian spelling profile of the Telsiai-Plunge area. You can include your locality or dialect when suggesting a correction.
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After translating in either direction, use the correction form to suggest a short sentence, add your locality or source, and send it to the Lietuva.love team for review. Only the text you choose to submit through this form is sent to the team.
Sources and translation rules
- VLE: šiaurės Žemaičių patarmė
- VLE: telšiškių tarmė
- VLE: Žemaičių tarmė
- Aleksas Girdenis ir Juozas Pabrėža: Žemaičių patarmės, rašybos pagrindai (1998 m. rašybos leidinio elektroninė redakcija)
- Lituanistika: Juozas Pabrėža, Žemaičių kalba ir rašyba
- Lituanistika: Birutė Vanagienė, Šiaurės vakarų Žemaičių žodynas
- Miško klinika: naudoti leistas lietuvių–žemaičių redakcinis 22 DOCX puslapių korpusas (2026-06-18)
- Universal Dependencies: Lithuanian morphology and syntax (lietuvių įvesties analizė, ne žemaitiško vertimo šaltinis)
- Švietimo ministerija: A2 kalbos mokėjimo turinio aprašas, p. 30–33 (lietuvių linksniai ir prielinksniai)
- Jūratė Pajėdienė: Juozo Pabrėžos monografijos Žemaičių kalba ir rašyba recenzija
- Juozas Pabrėža: Žemaičių kalbos dvasia Romualdo Granausko kūryboje