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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
European Union, Poland

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Poland

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)

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.
  • Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
  • The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3332
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

99
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2423
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
cześć

Thank You

Paldies
dziękuję

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
Jak się masz?

Good Night

Ar labunakti
dobranoc

Good Evening

Labvakar
dobry wieczór

Good Afternoon

Labdien
dzień dobry

Good Morning

Labrīt
Dzień dobry

Please

lūdzu
proszę

Sorry

Piedodiet!
Przepraszam

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
do widzenia

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
kocham Cię

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
przepraszam

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Kashubian

Where They Speak

Latvia
Poland

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00108,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Masovian

Where They Speak

Latvia
Poland

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Silesian

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Czech Republic, Poland

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00510,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

334
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million40.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.61 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million40.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million40.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
Polski

Alternative Names

Lettish
Polnisch, Polski

French Name

letton
polonais

German Name

Lettisch
Polnisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[ˈpɔlski]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Poles

History

Origin

1530
1270

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Baltic
Slavic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish

Standard Forms

Latvian
Polish

Language Position

924
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
pl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
pol

ISO 639 2/B

lav
pol

ISO 639 3

lav
pol

ISO 639 6

lav
pols

Glottocode

latv1249
poli1260

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
53-AAA-cc

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Latvian and Polish Alphabets

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

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

Latvian and Polish Speaking population

Latvian and Polish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Polish languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Polish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 %. 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 Polish on Latvian vs Polish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and Polish Language Codes

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