Countries
European Union, Latvia
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan 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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2430
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Paldies
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Labvakar
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Labdien
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Labrīt
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
lūdzu
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Piedodiet!
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Livonian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Latvia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Latvia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
China
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.75 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.75 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
latviešu valoda
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
letton
tibétain
German Name
Lettisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
tibetan people
Origin
1530
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Latvian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
lv
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
bod
ISO 639 2/B
lav
tib
ISO 639 3
lav
bod
ISO 639 6
lav
bod
Glottocode
latv1249
tibe1272
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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