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Latvian

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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

29
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Austria

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

-
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3330
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2425
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

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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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
bok

Thank You

Paldies
hvala

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
kako si

Good Night

Ar labunakti
laku noć

Good Evening

Labvakar
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

Labdien
dobar dan

Good Morning

Labrīt
dobro jutro

Please

lūdzu
molim

Sorry

Piedodiet!
Oprostite

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
Doviđenja

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
Volim te

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Latvia
Croatia

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Latvia
Croatia

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

379
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Lettish
Hrvatski

French Name

letton
croate

German Name

Lettisch
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Croats

History

Origin

1530
9th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Baltic
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Latvian
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

923
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

lav
hrv

ISO 639 3

lav
hrv

ISO 639 6

lav
hrv

Glottocode

latv1249
croa1245

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Latvian and Croatian Alphabets

Latvian and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and Croatian. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Latvian and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and Croatian languages. The Latvian phonology consist Latvian vowels and Latvian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Latvian greetings vs Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and Croatian Speaking population

Latvian and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Latvian and Croatian on Latvian vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and Croatian Language Codes

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