About Latvian Language | Latvian | Alphabets in Latvian

Countries

European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Latvia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center

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.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 15 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 14 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki

Thank You

Paldies

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?

Good Night

Ar labunakti

Good Evening

Labvakar

Good Afternoon

Labdien

Good Morning

Labrīt

Please

lūdzu

Sorry

Piedodiet!

Bye

Uz redzēšanos

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian

Where They Speak

Latvia

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00

Rank: 57 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian

Where They Speak

Latvia

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.00

Rank: 55 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

High Latvian

Where They Speak

France, Latvia

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00

Rank: 51 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million

Rank: 82 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.07 %

Rank: 58 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

1.75 million

Rank: 77 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million

Rank: 57 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

latviešu valoda

Alternative Names

Lettish

French Name

letton

German Name

Lettisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts

History

Origin

1530

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Baltic

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Latvian

Language Position

Rank: 9 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav

ISO 639 2/B

lav

ISO 639 3

lav

ISO 639 6

lav

Glottocode

latv1249

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Latvian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Latvian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Latvian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Latvian. Latvian phonology gives Latvian vowels and Latvian consonants. There are 9 vowels and 24 consonants in Latvian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Latvian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Latvian language is given in detail in this section.

All Latvian countries

Want to explore all Latvian countries? About Latvian language serves you with all Latvian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Latvian as official language are called as Latvian countries.

Countries that use Latvian as their National Language are: Latvia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Latvian as second language are: Latvian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Latvian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Latvian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Latvian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Latvian language.Learn Latvian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Sveiki
Thank you: Paldies
Good Morning: Labrīt
Good Evening: Labvakar
Good Afternoon: Labdien

All Latvian Language Codes

Get to know all Latvian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Latvian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.