Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
Turkey, Uzbekistan
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
  
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
  
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uzbek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Salom
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
Rakhmat
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Qalay siz?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
Hayirli tun
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
Hayirli kech
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Hayirli kun
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
Hayirli tong
  
Please
lūdzu
  
Iltimos
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
Kechiring!
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Xayr
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Sizni sevaman
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Iltimos! Menga qarang
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Tashkent
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Afghan
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Ferghana
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
26.00 million
  
31
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
letton
  
ouszbek
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Usbekisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Uzbek
  
Origin
1530
  
9th–12th centuries AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southestern(Chagatai)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Chagatay
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Uzbek
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
uz
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
uzbe1247
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Latvian and Uzbek 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 Uzbek greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Uzbek language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Uzbek word for "Thank You" is Rakhmat. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Uzbek Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Uzbek Difficulty
The Latvian vs Uzbek difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian Alphabets and Uzbek 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 Uzbek are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Uzbek, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Uzbek time required is 44 weeks.