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About Latvian Language



Countries

Countries
European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
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Alphabets
33 15

Phonology

How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
24 14

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 57

Dialect 2
Middle Latvian

Where They Speak
Latvia

How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00 55

Dialect 3
High Latvian

Where They Speak
France, Latvia

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00 51

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.75 million 82

Speaking Population
0.07 % 58

Native Speakers
1.75 million 77

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million 57

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
9 9

Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language

Scope
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
lv

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

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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.

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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.

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