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Latvian
Latvian

Serbian
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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3330
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2425
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

Paldies
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

Ar labunakti
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

Labvakar
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

Labdien
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

Labrīt
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

lūdzu
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

Piedodiet!
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Latvia
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Latvia
Serbia

How Many People Speak

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

High Latvian
Torlakian

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

33
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Lettish
Montenegrin

French Name

letton
serbe

German Name

Lettisch
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Serbs

History

Origin

1530
11th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Baltic
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Latvian
Standard Serbian

Language Position

944
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
srp

ISO 639 2/B

lav
srp

ISO 639 3

lav
srp

ISO 639 6

lav
srp

Glottocode

latv1249
serb1264

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Latvian and Serbian Alphabets

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

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

Latvian and Serbian Speaking population

Latvian and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. 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 Serbian on Latvian vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and Serbian Language Codes

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