Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Turkey
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
günaydın
  
Please
lūdzu
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
letton
  
turc
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Turkish
  
Origin
1530
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Latvian and Turkish Speaking population
Latvian and Turkish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Turkish languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Turkish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 %. 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 Turkish on Latvian vs Turkish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Latvian and Turkish Language Codes
Latvian and Turkish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Latvian and Turkish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.