Countries
European Union, Latvia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
924
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2423
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Paldies
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Labvakar
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Labdien
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Labrīt
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
lūdzu
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Piedodiet!
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Livonian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Latvia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Wu
Where They Speak
Latvia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Yue
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
latviešu valoda
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
letton
chinois
German Name
Lettisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Han
Origin
1530
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Baltic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Latvian
Standard Chinese
Language Position
91
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
zho
ISO 639 2/B
lav
chi
ISO 639 3
lav
zho
ISO 639 6
lav
zho
Glottocode
latv1249
sini1245
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating