Countries
European Union, Latvia
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2436
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Paldies
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Labvakar
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Labdien
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Labrīt
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
lūdzu
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Piedodiet!
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Livonian
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Latvia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Latvia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Pirdop
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
358
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
latviešu valoda
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Balgarski
French Name
letton
bulgare
German Name
Lettisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Bulgarian people
Origin
1530
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Latvian
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
988
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
bul
ISO 639 2/B
lav
bul
ISO 639 3
lav
bul
ISO 639 6
lav
buls
Glottocode
latv1249
bulg1262
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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