Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
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
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Govenment of Goa
  
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.
  
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Marathi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Namaskar
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
Dev Borem Korum
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
kaso assa?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Please
lūdzu
  
Chike
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
Maf kor
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Adeus
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
upkar korxi
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Antruz
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Goa
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
French Name
letton
  
konkani
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Konkani
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
kõkɳi
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Konkanis
  
Origin
1530
  
1209 A.D.
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Kokani
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
kok
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
kok
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
kok
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
goan1235
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Latvian and Konkani 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 Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Konkani language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Konkani Difficulty
The Latvian vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Konkani 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 Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.