Countries
European Union, Latvia
China, Nepal
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
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Latvia
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
High Latvian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
China
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Latvian
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
latv1249
tibe1272
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-
All Latvian and Tibetan 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 Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Latvian and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Latvian are spoken in different Latvian Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Latvian vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Latvian dialects include: Livonian, Middle Latvian. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Latvian and Tibetan Speaking population
Latvian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Latvian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Latvian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. 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 Tibetan on Latvian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Latvian and Tibetan Language Codes
Latvian and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Latvian and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.