Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Latvia
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
lūdzu
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
380.00 million
  
5
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
letton
  
hindi
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
1530
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Standard Hindi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Latvian and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Hindi language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Hindi Difficulty
The Latvian vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.