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Latvian

Swahili
Swahili



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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3324
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2421
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
Habari

Thank You

Paldies
Asante

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
Habari gani?

Good Night

Ar labunakti
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

Labvakar
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

Labdien
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

Labrīt
Habari za asubuhi

Please

lūdzu
tafadhali

Sorry

Piedodiet!
pole

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
bye

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Latvia
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Latvia
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Kimgao

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0075,000,000.00
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 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Lettish
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

letton
swahili

German Name

Lettisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

1530
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Baltic
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Latvian
Swahili

Language Position

921
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
swa

ISO 639 2/B

lav
swa

ISO 639 3

lav
swa

ISO 639 6

lav
swa

Glottocode

latv1249
swah1254

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
-

Latvian and Swahili Alphabets

Latvian and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and Swahili. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Latvian and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and Swahili Speaking population

Latvian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Swahili on Latvian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Latvian and Swahili Language Codes

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