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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council

Total No. Of Countries

25
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)

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.
  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Norwegian and Swedish

Derived From

-
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3329
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

920
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2420
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
Hallo

Thank You

Paldies
Mange tak

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
Hvordan har du det?

Good Night

Ar labunakti
God nat

Good Evening

Labvakar
God aften

Good Afternoon

Labdien
God eftermiddag

Good Morning

Labrīt
God morgen

Please

lūdzu
Please

Sorry

Piedodiet!
Undskyld!

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
Farvel

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
Jeg elsker dig

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
Undskyld mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Scanian

Where They Speak

Latvia
Sweden

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0080,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Jutlandic

Where They Speak

Latvia
Denmark

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.006,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Bornholmsk

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Island of Bornholm

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.006,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

34
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million5.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million5.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
dansk

Alternative Names

Lettish
Dansk, Rigsdansk

French Name

letton
danois

German Name

Lettisch
Dänisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Danish people or Danes

History

Origin

1530
c. 1100 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Baltic
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish

Standard Forms

Latvian
Rigsdansk

Language Position

918
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Signed Danish

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
da

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
dan

ISO 639 2/B

lav
dan

ISO 639 3

lav
dan

ISO 639 6

lav
dan

Glottocode

latv1249
dani1284

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional

Latvian and Danish Alphabets

Latvian and Danish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and Danish. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Latvian and Danish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and Danish 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 Danish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and Danish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and Danish Speaking population

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

Latvian and Danish Language Codes

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