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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries

72
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Latvia

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Latvian State Language Center

Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Lithuanian Language

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2633
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

109
0 32
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How Many Consonants

924
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Sveiki

Thank You

Danke
Paldies

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Kā jums klājas?

Good Night

gute Nacht
Ar labunakti

Good Evening

guten Abend
Labvakar

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Labdien

Good Morning

guten Morgen
Labrīt

Please

bitte
lūdzu

Sorry

Verzeihung
Piedodiet!

Bye

Tschüs
Uz redzēšanos

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Es tevi mīlu

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Piedodiet!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Livonian

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Latvia

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Middle Latvian

Where They Speak

Germany
Latvia

How Many People Speak

820,000.002,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
High Latvian

Where They Speak

Texas
France, Latvia

How Many People Speak

6,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

283
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million1.75 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million1.75 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
latviešu valoda

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Lettish

French Name

allemand
letton

German Name

Deutsch
Lettisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈlætviən]

Ethnicity

Germans
Latvians or Letts

History

Origin

6th Century AD
1530

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Baltic

Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Latvian

Language Position

99
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Latvian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

de
lv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
lav

ISO 639 2/B

ger
lav

ISO 639 3

deu
lav

ISO 639 6

deus
lav

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
latv1249

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
54-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

German and Latvian Alphabets

German and Latvian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Latvian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn German and Latvian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Latvian languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Latvian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Latvian are Most Spoken Languages.

All German 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 German and Latvian dialects. Various dialects of German and Latvian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Latvian Dialects are spoken in different Latvian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Latvian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Latvian dialects include: Livonian , Middle Latvian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Latvian Speaking population

German and Latvian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Latvian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Latvian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % 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 German and Latvian on German vs Latvian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Latvian Language Codes

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