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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3332
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

96
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2423
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
سلام

Thank You

Paldies
متشکرم

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
چطور هستید?

Good Night

Ar labunakti
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Labvakar
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Labdien
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

Labrīt
صبح به خیر

Please

lūdzu
لطفا

Sorry

Piedodiet!
متاسف

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Latvia
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Latvia
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

312
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
فارسی

Alternative Names

Lettish
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

letton
persan

German Name

Lettisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Persian people

History

Origin

1530
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Baltic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Latvian
Persian

Language Position

923
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
fas

ISO 639 2/B

lav
per

ISO 639 3

lav
pes

ISO 639 6

lav
pers

Glottocode

latv1249
fars1254

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
58-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 Persian Alphabets

Latvian and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and Persian. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Latvian and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and Persian Speaking population

Latvian and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Latvian vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and Persian Language Codes

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