Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
lūdzu
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
91.00 million
  
16
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
letton
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
1530
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Latvian and Vietnamese Speaking population
Latvian and Vietnamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Vietnamese languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Vietnamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 %. 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 Vietnamese on Latvian vs Vietnamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Latvian and Vietnamese Language Codes
Latvian and Vietnamese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Latvian and Vietnamese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.