Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
European Union, Finland
  
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 in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
  
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
  
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
  
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
  
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.