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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

European Union, Latvia

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Latvia

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center

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.

1.9 Similar To

Lithuanian Language

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

24
Rank: 14 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Sveiki

3.2 Thank You

Paldies

3.3 How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?

3.4 Good Night

Ar labunakti

3.5 Good Evening

Labvakar

3.6 Good Afternoon

Labdien

3.7 Good Morning

Labrīt

3.8 Please

lūdzu

3.9 Sorry

Piedodiet!

3.10 Bye

Uz redzēšanos

3.11 I Love You

Es tevi mīlu

3.12 Excuse Me

Piedodiet!

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Livonian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Latvia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Middle Latvian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Latvia

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

High Latvian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

France, Latvia

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

1.75 million
Rank: 82 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

1.75 million
Rank: 77 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

latviešu valoda

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Lettish

5.3.4 French Name

letton

5.3.5 German Name

Lettisch

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts

6 History

6.1 Origin

1530

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Baltic

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Latvian

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language

6.4 Scope

Macrolanguage

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

lv

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

lav

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

lav

7.3 ISO 639 3

lav

7.4 ISO 639 6

not Available

7.5 Glottocode

latv1249

7.6 Linguasphere

54-AAB-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Origin of Latvian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Latvian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Latvian language states that it was put to use in 1530. The history of Latvian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Latvian Language History. Latvian has no early forms. Latvian is the standard form of Latvian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Latvian Language.

Latvian population

Latvian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Latvian language. Latvian language is spoken by 1.75 million people in the world. Most of the Latvian population lies in the Latvian Speaking Countries. Latvian language is spoken as first language by 1.75 million people and no total count of people speaking Latvian as second language. Get to know Latvian speaking population in detail.

Latvian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Latvian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Latvian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Latvian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Latvian language

Check out all the information about Latvian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Latvian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Latvian Speaking Countries, Latvian speaking continents and Latvian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Latvian countries knowing common Latvian Greetings will help you in communicating with Latvian people.