Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
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.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
lūdzu
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Serbia
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
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How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
letton
  
serbe
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Serbs
  
Origin
1530
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Standard Serbian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Latvian and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Serbian language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Serbian Difficulty
The Latvian vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Serbian 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 Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.