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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

European Union, Latvia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Latvia

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
  • The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.

1.9 Similar To

Lithuanian Language

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

24
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Sveiki

3.2 Thank You

Paldies

3.3 How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?

3.4 Good Night

Ar labunakti

3.5 Good Evening

Labvakar

3.6 Good Afternoon

Labdien

3.7 Good Morning

Labrīt

3.8 Please

lūdzu

3.9 Sorry

Piedodiet!

3.10 Bye

Uz redzēšanos

3.11 I Love You

Es tevi mīlu

3.12 Excuse Me

Piedodiet!

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Livonian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Latvia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Middle Latvian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Latvia

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

High Latvian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

France, Latvia

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

1.75 million
Rank: 82 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

1.75 million
Rank: 77 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

latviešu valoda

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Lettish

5.3.4 French Name

letton

5.3.5 German Name

Lettisch

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts

6 History

6.1 Origin

1530

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Baltic

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Latvian

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language

6.4 Scope

Macrolanguage

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

lv

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

lav

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

lav

7.3 ISO 639 3

lav

7.4 ISO 639 6

not Available

7.5 Glottocode

latv1249

7.6 Linguasphere

54-AAB-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Latvian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Latvian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Latvian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Latvian. Latvian phonology gives Latvian vowels and Latvian consonants. There are 9 vowels and 24 consonants in Latvian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Latvian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Latvian language is given in detail in this section.

All Latvian countries

Want to explore all Latvian countries? About Latvian language serves you with all Latvian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Latvian as official language are called as Latvian countries.

  • Countries that use Latvian as their National Language are: Latvia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Latvian as second language are: Latvian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Latvian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Latvian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Latvian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Latvian language.Learn Latvian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Sveiki
  • Thank you: Paldies
  • Good Morning: Labrīt
  • Good Evening: Labvakar
  • Good Afternoon: Labdien

All Latvian Language Codes

Get to know all Latvian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Latvian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.