1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Latvia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1.8 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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sveiki
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
Ar labunakti
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
Labvakar
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Labdien
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
Labrīt
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
lūdzu
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
Piedodiet!
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
Uz redzēšanos
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Livonian
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Latvia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.75 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.75 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Russians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Signed Russian
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic