Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
lūdzu
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
letton
  
népalais
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1530
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Latvian and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Nepali language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Latvian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.