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Kazakh
Kazakh

Latvian
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Countries

Countries

China, Kazakhstan, Russia
European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries

32
0 46
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National Language

Gambia, Kazakhstan
Latvia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Kazakh language agency
Latvian State Language Center

Interesting Facts

  • The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
  • Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
  • 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

Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Lithuanian Language

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2433
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1724
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Cyrillic
Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, 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

Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
Sveiki

Thank You

Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
Paldies

How Are You?

Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
Kā jums klājas?

Good Night

қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
Ar labunakti

Good Evening

қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
Labvakar

Good Afternoon

қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
Labdien

Good Morning

қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
Labrīt

Please

өтінемін (ötinemin)
lūdzu

Sorry

кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
Piedodiet!

Bye

bye
Uz redzēšanos

I Love You

Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
Es tevi mīlu

Excuse Me

Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
Piedodiet!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northeastern Kazakh
Livonian

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan
Latvia

How Many People Speak

18,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Southern Kazakh
Middle Latvian

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan
Latvia

How Many People Speak

18,000,000.002,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Western Kazakh
High Latvian

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan
France, Latvia

How Many People Speak

18,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

33
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

11.00 million1.75 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

11.00 million1.75 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

18.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
latviešu valoda

Alternative Names

Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Lettish

French Name

kazakh
letton

German Name

Kasachisch
Lettisch

Pronunciation

[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
[ˈlætviən]

Ethnicity

Kazahks
Latvians or Letts

History

Origin

17th Century
1530

Language Family

Turkic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Turkic
Baltic

Branch

Northwestern (Kipchak)
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Kazakh
Latvian

Language Position

939
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kazakh Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

kk
lv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kaz
lav

ISO 639 2/B

kaz
lav

ISO 639 3

kaz
lav

ISO 639 6

kaz
lav

Glottocode

kaza1248
latv1249

Linguasphere

No data available
54-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Synthetic

Kazakh and Latvian Alphabets

Kazakh and Latvian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kazakh and Latvian. In Kazakh Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Kazakh and Latvian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kazakh and Latvian languages. The Kazakh phonology consist Kazakh vowels and Kazakh consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Kazakh greetings vs Latvian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kazakh and Latvian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Kazakh and Latvian Speaking population

Kazakh and Latvian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kazakh and Latvian languages can be compared. The total count of Kazakh and Latvian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kazakh language is 0.17 % 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 Kazakh and Latvian on Kazakh vs Latvian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kazakh and Latvian Language Codes

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