Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
lūdzu
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
43.00 million
  
30
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
letton
  
birman
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
1530
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Modern Burmese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Latvian and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Burmese language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Burmese Difficulty
The Latvian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Burmese 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 Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.