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Latvian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Latvian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Latvia   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Latvia   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

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.
  
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  

Similar To
Lithuanian Language   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
33   
15
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
8   
5

How Many Consonants
24   
14
13   
3

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Sveiki   
Moi   

Thank You
Paldies   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
Ar labunakti   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
Labvakar   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
Labdien   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
Labrīt   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
lūdzu   
haluta   

Sorry
Piedodiet!   
Anteeksi   

Bye
Uz redzēšanos   
Heippa   

I Love You
Es tevi mīlu   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
Piedodiet!   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Livonian   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Latvia   
Finland   

Dialect 2
Middle Latvian   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Latvia   
Finland, Rauma   

Dialect 3
High Latvian   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
France, Latvia   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.75 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.75 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
latviešu valoda   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Lettish   
Suomi   

French Name
letton   
finnois   

German Name
Lettisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
1530   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Baltic   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Latvian   
standard Finnish   

Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
lv   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lav   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
lav   
fin   

ISO 639 3
lav   
fin   

ISO 639 6
not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
latv1249   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
54-AAB-a   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Latvian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Latvian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Latvian and Finnish language. History of Latvian language states that this language originated in 1530 whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Latvian and Finnish Language History.

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Latvian and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Finnish language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Latvian vs Finnish Difficulty

The Latvian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Finnish 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 Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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