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Countries

Countries

Japan
European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Latvia

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Europe

Minority Language

Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Latvian State Language Center

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Lithuanian Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9933
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1424
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Sveiki

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Paldies

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Kā jums klājas?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Ar labunakti

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Labvakar

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Labdien

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Labrīt

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
lūdzu

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Piedodiet!

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Uz redzēšanos

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Es tevi mīlu

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Piedodiet!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Livonian

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Latvia

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Middle Latvian

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Latvia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.002,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
High Latvian

Where They Speak

kansai
France, Latvia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

313
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million1.75 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million1.75 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
latviešu valoda

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Lettish

French Name

japonais
letton

German Name

Japanisch
Lettisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈlætviən]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Latvians or Letts

History

Origin

1185
1530

Language Family

Japonic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Baltic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Latvian

Language Position

89
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Latvian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
lv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
lav

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
lav

ISO 639 3

jpn
lav

ISO 639 6

jpn
lav

Glottocode

nucl1643
latv1249

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
54-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic

Japanese and Latvian Alphabets

Japanese and Latvian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Latvian. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Japanese and Latvian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Latvian languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Latvian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Latvian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Latvian Speaking population

Japanese and Latvian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Latvian languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Latvian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Latvian on Japanese vs Latvian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Latvian Language Codes

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