Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
lūdzu
  
sila
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
maaf
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Not Available
  
French Name
letton
  
malais
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1530
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Latvian and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Malaysian language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Latvian vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.