Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
lūdzu
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Macedonia
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
letton
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
1530
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Macedonian
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic
  
Latvian and Macedonian 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 Macedonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Macedonian language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Macedonian word for "Thank You" is Благодарам (Blagodaram). Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Macedonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Macedonian Difficulty
The Latvian vs Macedonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Macedonian 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 Macedonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Macedonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Macedonian time required is 44 weeks.