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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)

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 most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
French and Portuguese Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3321
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2416
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
ciao

Thank You

Paldies
grazie

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
Come stai?

Good Night

Ar labunakti
buonanotte

Good Evening

Labvakar
buonasera

Good Afternoon

Labdien
buon pomeriggio

Good Morning

Labrīt
buongiorno

Please

lūdzu
Per Favore

Sorry

Piedodiet!
scusate

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
arrivederci

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
Ti amo

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
Scusami

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Romanesco

Where They Speak

Latvia
Lazio

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.003,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Central Italian

Where They Speak

Latvia
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

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

High Latvian
Tuscan

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0069,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

315
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million78.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million64.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million14.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
Italiano

Alternative Names

Lettish
Italiano

French Name

letton
italien

German Name

Lettisch
Italienisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[itaˈljaːno]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Italians

History

Origin

1530
960 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Baltic
Romance

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Latvian
Italian

Language Position

927
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
it

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
ita

ISO 639 2/B

lav
ita

ISO 639 3

lav
ita

ISO 639 6

lav
itas

Glottocode

latv1249
ital1282

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
51-AAA-q

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Latvian and Italian Alphabets

Latvian and Italian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and Italian. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Italian Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn Latvian and Italian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and Italian 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 Italian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and Italian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and Italian Speaking population

Latvian and Italian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Italian languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Italian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Italian language is 0.90 %. 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 Italian on Latvian vs Italian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and Italian Language Codes

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