Countries
European Union, Latvia
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Latvia
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
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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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3327
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Sveiki
Halo
Thank You
Paldies
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Ar labunakti
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Labvakar
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Labdien
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Labrīt
Sugeng énjing
Please
lūdzu
matur nuwun
Sorry
Piedodiet!
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Livonian
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Latvia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Latvia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
High Latvian
Arekan
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
latviešu valoda
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Lettish
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
letton
javanais
German Name
Lettisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1530
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Latvian
Javanese
Language Position
911
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
jav
ISO 639 2/B
lav
jav
ISO 639 3
lav
jav
ISO 639 6
lav
jav
Glottocode
latv1249
java1253
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative