Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Norway
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
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.
  
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
god morgen
  
Please
lūdzu
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Norsk
  
French Name
letton
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
1530
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Latvian and Norwegian 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 Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Norwegian language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Latvian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Norwegian 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 Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.