Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
günaydın
  
Please
lūdzu
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
letton
  
turc
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Turkish
  
Origin
1530
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Latvian and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Turkish language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Turkish Difficulty
The Latvian vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.