Countries
European Union, Latvia
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
National Language
Latvia
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
Ar labunakti
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
Labvakar
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
Labdien
مساء الخير
Good Morning
Labrīt
صباح الخير
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
أحبك
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Livonian
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Latvia
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Latvia
Sudan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
High Latvian
Levantine
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
latviešu valoda
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Lettish
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
German Name
Lettisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Arabs
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Latvian
Modern Standard Arabic
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Signed Arabic
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
latv1249
arab1395
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Latvian and Arabic 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 Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Arabic language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Arabic Difficulty
The Latvian vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Arabic 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 Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.