Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
European Union, Poland
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Poland
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
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.
  
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
cześć
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
dziękuję
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Jak się masz?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
dobranoc
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
dobry wieczór
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
dzień dobry
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
Dzień dobry
  
Please
lūdzu
  
proszę
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
Przepraszam
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
do widzenia
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
kocham Cię
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
przepraszam
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Masovian
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Poland
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
31
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
24
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
Polski
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Polnisch, Polski
  
French Name
letton
  
polonais
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Polnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Poles
  
Origin
1530
  
1270
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Polish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
pl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
pol
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
pol
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
pol
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
pols
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
poli1260
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
53-AAA-cc
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Latvian and Polish 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 Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Polish language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Polish Difficulty
The Latvian vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Polish 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 Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.