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Latvian

Hungarian
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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

25
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)

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.
  • Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
  • 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Mansi and Khanty Languages

Derived From

-
East and South Slavic Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3340
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

914
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

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
szia

Thank You

Paldies
köszönöm

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
Hogy vagy?

Good Night

Ar labunakti
Jó Éjszakát

Good Evening

Labvakar
jó Estét

Good Afternoon

Labdien
Jó Napot Kívánok

Good Morning

Labrīt
jó Reggelt

Please

lūdzu
Kérlek

Sorry

Piedodiet!
bocsi

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
viszlát

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
Szeretlek

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
elnézést

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Csángó

Where They Speak

Latvia
Bacău County, Rumania

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Oberwart

Where They Speak

Latvia
Austria

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.0013,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Székely

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Székely Land

How Many People Speak

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

311
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.19 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million0.07 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
magyar / magyar nyelv

Alternative Names

Lettish
Magyar

French Name

letton
hongrois

German Name

Lettisch
Ungarisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[ˈmɒɟɒr]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Hungarians

History

Origin

1530
1192 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Baltic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Ugric

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Hungarian

Standard Forms

Latvian
Modern Hungarian

Language Position

966
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Hungarian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
hu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
hun

ISO 639 2/B

lav
hun

ISO 639 3

lav
hun

ISO 639 6

lav
hun

Glottocode

latv1249
hung1274

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
ohu

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Latvian and Hungarian Alphabets

Latvian and Hungarian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and Hungarian. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Hungarian Alphabets there are 40 letters. To learn Latvian and Hungarian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and Hungarian 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 Hungarian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and Hungarian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and Hungarian Speaking population

Latvian and Hungarian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Hungarian languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Hungarian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hungarian language is 0.19 %. 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 Hungarian on Latvian vs Hungarian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and Hungarian Language Codes

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