1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
European Union, Latvia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Latvian State Language Center
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Lithuanian Language
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Kā jums klājas?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Es tevi mīlu
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Piedodiet!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Swabian German
Middle Latvian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Texas German
High Latvian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million1.75 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million1.75 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Germans
Latvians or Letts
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Latvian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Latvian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
latv1249
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic