1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Latvia
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Latvia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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?
Kā jums klājas?
Mitä kuuluu?
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
Es tevi mīlu
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Livonian
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Finland, Sweden
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.75 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.75 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
latviešu valoda
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Signed Finnish
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
not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic