Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
lūdzu
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Abkhazia
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
letton
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
1530
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Latvian and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Latvian and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Abkhaz language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Latvian vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Latvian and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.