Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
lūdzu
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
آسف
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
letton
  
arabe
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1530
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic