1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Latvia
Estonia, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
1.9 Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Finnish
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
Kā jums klājas?
kuidas sul läheb
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
3.11 I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
ma armastan sind
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Latvia
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Latvia
Georgia, South Estonia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, Latvia
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
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 million1.10 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.75 million0.95 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
latviešu valoda
eesti keel
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Estonians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
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
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology