Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Austria
  
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
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
bok
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
lūdzu
  
molim
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
letton
  
croate
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Croats
  
Origin
1530
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Latvian and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Croatian language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Latvian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.