Countries
European Union, Latvia
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2422
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Paldies
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Labvakar
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Labdien
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Labrīt
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
lūdzu
будь ласк
Sorry
Piedodiet!
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Livonian
Podillian
Where They Speak
Latvia
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Volynian
Where They Speak
Latvia
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Steppe
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
latviešu valoda
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
letton
ukrainien
German Name
Lettisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Ukrainians
Origin
1530
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Latvian
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
lav
ukr
ISO 639 3
lav
ukr
ISO 639 6
lav
ukr
Glottocode
latv1249
ukra1253
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic