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Latvian
Latvian

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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Japan

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Korean Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3399
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2414
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Paldies
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Ar labunakti
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Labvakar
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Labdien
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Labrīt
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

lūdzu
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Piedodiet!
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Latvia
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Hakata

Where They Speak

Latvia
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Kansai

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
kansai

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

331
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
日本語

Alternative Names

Lettish
Nihongo

French Name

letton
japonais

German Name

Lettisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

1530
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Baltic
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Latvian
Japanese

Language Position

98
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

lav
jpn

ISO 639 3

lav
jpn

ISO 639 6

lav
jpn

Glottocode

latv1249
nucl1643

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Latvian and Japanese Alphabets

Latvian and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and Japanese. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Latvian and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and Japanese Speaking population

Latvian and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Latvian vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and Japanese Language Codes

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