1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Latvia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
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?
Wie geht es dir?
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
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Entschuldigung
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Swabian German
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA820,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
High Latvian
Texas German
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?
1.75 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.75 million101.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA128.00 million
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
Latvians or Letts
Germans
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
Latvian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Signed German
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
latv1249
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic