1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Latvia
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Latvia
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Armenian
1.10 Derived From
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
Sveiki
γεια σας (geia sas)
3.2 Thank You
Paldies
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
Ar labunakti
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
Labvakar
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Labdien
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
Labrīt
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
lūdzu
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
Piedodiet!
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
Uz redzēšanos
αντίο (antío)
3.11 I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Livonian
Cappadocian Greek
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
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 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.75 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Lettish
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
letton
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
6.4 Scope
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
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
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic