Countries
European Union, Latvia
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
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
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
920
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2433
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
Paldies
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Ar labunakti
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
Labvakar
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Labdien
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
Labrīt
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
lūdzu
សូម
Sorry
Piedodiet!
សូរី
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Livonian
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Latvia
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Latvia
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
latviešu valoda
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
letton
khmer central
German Name
Lettisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1530
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Baltic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Latvian
Modern Khmer
Language Position
91
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
khm
ISO 639 2/B
lav
khm
ISO 639 3
lav
khm
ISO 639 6
lav
khm
Glottocode
latv1249
khme1253
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating