Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
lūdzu
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
letton
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Georgians
  
Origin
1530
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Southern
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Modern Georgian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Latvian and Georgian Speaking population
Latvian and Georgian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Georgian languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Georgian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Georgian language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Latvian and Georgian on Latvian vs Georgian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Latvian and Georgian Language Codes
Latvian and Georgian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Latvian and Georgian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.