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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

910
0 32
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How Many Consonants

249
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
hallo

Thank You

Paldies
Danke

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Ar labunakti
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Labvakar
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Labdien
guten Tag

Good Morning

Labrīt
guten Morgen

Please

lūdzu
bitte

Sorry

Piedodiet!
Verzeihung

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
Tschüs

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Latvia
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Latvia
Germany

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Texas German

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Texas

How Many People Speak

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

328
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Lettish
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

letton
allemand

German Name

Lettisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Germans

History

Origin

1530
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Baltic
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Latvian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

99
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
deu

ISO 639 2/B

lav
ger

ISO 639 3

lav
deu

ISO 639 6

lav
deus

Glottocode

latv1249
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Latvian and German Alphabets

Latvian and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and German. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Latvian and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and German Speaking population

Latvian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Latvian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and German Language Codes

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