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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
European Union, Malta

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Malta

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
National Council for the Maltese Language

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.
  • Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
  • Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

-
Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3330
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

96
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2424
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
Ħello

Thank You

Paldies
Grazzi

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
Kif int?

Good Night

Ar labunakti
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

Labvakar
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Afternoon

Labdien
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

Good Morning

Labrīt
L-għodwa t-tajba

Please

lūdzu
Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

Piedodiet!
Skużani!

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
Ċaw

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Qormi

Where They Speak

Latvia
Malta

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00520,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Żejtun

Where They Speak

Latvia
Malta

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.00500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Not Present

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
-

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

32
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million0.52 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million0.52 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million0.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
Malti

Alternative Names

Lettish
Malti

French Name

letton
maltais

German Name

Lettisch
Maltesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Maltese

History

Origin

1530
c. 1470

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Baltic
Semitic

Branch

-
North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Latvian
Maltese

Language Position

925
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
mt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
mlt

ISO 639 2/B

lav
mlt

ISO 639 3

lav
mlt

ISO 639 6

lav
mlt

Glottocode

latv1249
malt1254

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Synthetic

Latvian and Maltese Alphabets

Latvian and Maltese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and Maltese. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Latvian and Maltese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and Maltese 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 Maltese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and Maltese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and Maltese Speaking population

Latvian and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 %. 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 Maltese on Latvian vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and Maltese Language Codes

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