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Croatian

Latvian
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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries

92
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Latvia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Latvian State Language Center

Interesting Facts

  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  • 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

Serbain and Bosnian
Lithuanian Language

Derived From

Church Slavonic
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3033
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2524
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Sveiki

Thank You

hvala
Paldies

How Are You?

kako si
Kā jums klājas?

Good Night

laku noć
Ar labunakti

Good Evening

dobra večer
Labvakar

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
Labdien

Good Morning

dobro jutro
Labrīt

Please

molim
lūdzu

Sorry

Oprostite
Piedodiet!

Bye

Doviđenja
Uz redzēšanos

I Love You

Volim te
Es tevi mīlu

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Piedodiet!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Livonian

Where They Speak

Croatia
Latvia

How Many People Speak

660,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Middle Latvian

Where They Speak

Croatia
Latvia

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.002,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
High Latvian

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
France, Latvia

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

793
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million1.75 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million1.75 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
latviešu valoda

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Lettish

French Name

croate
letton

German Name

Kroatisch
Lettisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈlætviən]

Ethnicity

Croats
Latvians or Letts

History

Origin

9th century
1530

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Baltic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Latvian

Language Position

239
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
lv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
lav

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
lav

ISO 639 3

hrv
lav

ISO 639 6

hrv
lav

Glottocode

croa1245
latv1249

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
54-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Croatian and Latvian Alphabets

Croatian and Latvian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Latvian. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Croatian and Latvian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Latvian languages. The Croatian phonology consist Croatian vowels and Croatian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Croatian greetings vs Latvian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Latvian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Croatian and Latvian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Croatian and Latvian dialects. Various dialects of Croatian and Latvian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Croatian are spoken in different Croatian Speaking Countries whereas Latvian Dialects are spoken in different Latvian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Croatian vs Latvian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Croatian dialects include: Chakavian, Chakavian. Latvian dialects include: Livonian , Middle Latvian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Croatian and Latvian Speaking population

Croatian and Latvian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Latvian languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Latvian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Croatian and Latvian on Croatian vs Latvian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Latvian Language Codes

Croatian and Latvian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Croatian and Latvian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.