Countries
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
European Union, Latvia
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Latvia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
Latvian State Language Center
  
Interesting Facts
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Turkish
  
Lithuanian Language
  
Derived From
Osmanly language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Salam
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
Paldies
  
How Are You?
necəsən
  
Kā jums klājas?
  
Good Night
yaxşı gecə
  
Ar labunakti
  
Good Evening
Axşamınız xeyir
  
Labvakar
  
Good Afternoon
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Labdien
  
Good Morning
Sabahınız xeyir
  
Labrīt
  
Please
lütfən
  
lūdzu
  
Sorry
üzr
  
Piedodiet!
  
Bye
xudafiz
  
Uz redzēšanos
  
I Love You
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Es tevi mīlu
  
Excuse Me
Bağışlayın
  
Piedodiet!
  
Dialect 1
Derbent
  
Livonian
  
Where They Speak
Russia
  
Latvia
  
Dialect 2
Gazakh
  
Middle Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
Latvia
  
Dialect 3
Baku
  
High Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
France, Latvia
  
How Many People Speak?
26.00 million
  
39
1.75 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
1.75 million
  
99+
Native Name
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
latviešu valoda
  
Alternative Names
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Lettish
  
French Name
azéri
  
letton
  
German Name
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Lettisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Azerbaijani
  
Latvians or Letts
  
Origin
16th Century
  
1530
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Baltic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Azerbaijani
  
Latvian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Latvian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
az
  
lv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aze
  
lav
  
ISO 639 2/B
aze
  
lav
  
ISO 639 3
aze
  
lav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
not Available
  
Glottocode
azer1255
  
latv1249
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
54-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Azerbaijani and Latvian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Azerbaijani and Latvian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Azerbaijani and Latvian language. Azerbaijani word for "Hello" is Salam or Latvian word for "Thank You" is Paldies. Find more of such common Azerbaijani Greetings and Latvian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Azerbaijani vs Latvian Difficulty
The Azerbaijani vs Latvian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Azerbaijani Alphabets and Latvian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Azerbaijani and Latvian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Azerbaijani and Latvian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Azerbaijani is 44 weeks while to learn Latvian time required is 44 weeks.