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About Latvian Language

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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Latvia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Latvia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
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.
1.9 Similar To
Lithuanian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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24
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Sveiki
3.2 Thank You
Paldies
3.3 How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
3.4 Good Night
Ar labunakti
3.5 Good Evening
Labvakar
3.6 Good Afternoon
Labdien
3.7 Good Morning
Labrīt
3.8 Please
lūdzu
3.9 Sorry
Piedodiet!
3.10 Bye
Uz redzēšanos
3.11 I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
3.12 Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Livonian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Latvia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Latvia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
High Latvian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, Latvia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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1.75 million
Rank: 82 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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1.75 million
Rank: 77 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
latviešu valoda
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Lettish
5.3.4 French Name
letton
5.3.5 German Name
Lettisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
6 History
6.1 Origin
1530
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Baltic
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Latvian
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
lv
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
lav
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
lav
7.3 ISO 639 3
lav
7.4 ISO 639 6
not Available
7.5 Glottocode
latv1249
7.6 Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 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.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

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.

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