Countries
European Union, Latvia
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Munda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, 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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Hello
Sveiki
Henda ho
Thank You
Paldies
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Ar labunakti
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Labvakar
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Labdien
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Labrīt
Boge Setak’
Please
lūdzu
দয়া করে
Sorry
Piedodiet!
দুঃখিত
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
Hariau
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Livonian
Mahali
Where They Speak
Latvia
India
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Not present
Where They Speak
Latvia
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How Many People Speak
2,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
High Latvian
Not present
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
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How Many People Speak
1,500,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
latviešu valoda
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
letton
santal
German Name
Lettisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
1530
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Baltic
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Latvian
Santali
Language Position
941
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
sat
ISO 639 2/B
lav
sat
ISO 639 3
lav
sat
ISO 639 6
lav
sat
Glottocode
latv1249
sant1410
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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