1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Latvia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Latvia
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
1.7 Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
1.9 Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
1.13 Phonology
1.13.1 How Many Vowels
1.13.2 How Many Consonants
1.14 Scripts
1.15 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
1.16 Hard to Learn
1.16.1 Language Levels
1.16.2 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
2.2 Thank You
Paldies
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
2.3 How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
Како си? (Kako si?)
2.4 Good Night
Ar labunakti
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
2.5 Good Evening
Labvakar
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
2.6 Good Afternoon
Labdien
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
2.7 Good Morning
Labrīt
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
2.8 Please
2.9 Sorry
Piedodiet!
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
2.10 Bye
Uz redzēšanos
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
2.11 I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
Волим те (Volim te)
2.12 Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Извините (Izvinite)
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
Latvia
Southeastern Serbia
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
3.2 Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Smederevo–Vršac
3.2.1 Where They Speak
3.2.2 How Many People Speak
3.3 Dialect 3
3.3.1 Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
1400
96000000
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
1.75 million8.70 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
1.75 million8.70 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
latviešu valoda
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
4.3.3 Alternative Names
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
4.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[sr̩̂pskiː]
4.5 Ethnicity
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Not Available
5.4 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology