Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
European Union, Latvia
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Latvia
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Latvian State Language Center
  
Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
- 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
German and English Languages
  
Lithuanian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Paldies
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Kā jums klājas?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Ar labunakti
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Labvakar
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Labdien
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Labrīt
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
lūdzu
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Piedodiet!
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Uz redzēšanos
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Es tevi mīlu
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Piedodiet!
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Livonian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Latvia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Middle Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Latvia
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
High Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
France, Latvia
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
1.75 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
1.75 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
latviešu valoda
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Lettish
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
letton
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Lettisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Latvians or Letts
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1530
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Baltic
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Latvian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Latvian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
lv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
lav
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
lav
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
lav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
latv1249
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
54-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Dutch 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 Dutch and Latvian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Latvian language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Latvian word for "Thank You" is Paldies. Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Latvian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Latvian Difficulty
The Dutch vs Latvian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch 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 Dutch and Latvian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Latvian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Latvian time required is 44 weeks.