Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Czech Republic, European Union
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Czech Republic
  
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, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Institute of the Czech Language
  
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 Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
ahoj
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
děkuji
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Jak se máš?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
dobrou noc
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
dobré odpoledne
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
dobré ráno
  
Please
lūdzu
  
prosím
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
litovat
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
sbohem
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Miluji tě
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
promiňte
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Chod
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Chodsko, Bohemia
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Lach
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Moravian
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
11.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
11.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
čeština / český jazyk
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Bohemian, Cestina
  
French Name
letton
  
tchèque
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Tschechisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Czechs
  
Origin
1530
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Standard Czech
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Czech Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
cs
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
ces
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
cze
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
ces
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
czec1258
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
53-AAA-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Latvian and Czech 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 Czech greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Czech language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Czech word for "Thank You" is děkuji. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Czech Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Czech Difficulty
The Latvian vs Czech difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Czech 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 Czech are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Czech, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Czech time required is 44 weeks.