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 in
Alphabets
3399
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
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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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)
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
👆🏻
Dialect 3
High Latvian
Kansai
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
kansai
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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)
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
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