1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Latvia
Belarus, Poland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
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.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
1.9 Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Russian and Ukrainian
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uz redzēšanos
da pabačennia
3.11 I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
JA liubliu ciabie
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Livonian
North-Eastern Belarusian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Latvia
North-East Belarus
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
South-Western Belarusian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Latvia
South-West Belarus
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
High Latvian
Middle Belarusian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Middle Belarus
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.75 million9.63 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.75 million7.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
latviešu valoda
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Lettish
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Belarusians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology