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Countries

Countries

European Union, Latvia
Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Latvia
Nigeria

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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Latvian State Language Center
Yoruba Academy

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.
  • One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
  • In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.

Similar To

Lithuanian Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3329
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

912
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2417
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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Sveiki
Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

Paldies
e dupe

How Are You?

Kā jums klājas?
Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

Ar labunakti
Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

Labvakar
ka a ale

Good Afternoon

Labdien
e kaasan

Good Morning

Labrīt
e kaaro

Please

lūdzu
Jowo

Sorry

Piedodiet!
binu

Bye

Uz redzēšanos
bye

I Love You

Es tevi mīlu
mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

Piedodiet!
mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Livonian
Itsekiri

Where They Speak

Latvia
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Middle Latvian
Ede

Where They Speak

Latvia
Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.00800,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

High Latvian
Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

France, Latvia
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0010,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

320
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.75 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.75 million28.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million30.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

latviešu valoda
Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Lettish
Yariba, Yooba

French Name

letton
yoruba

German Name

Lettisch
Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈlætviən]
[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Latvians or Letts
Yoruba people

History

Origin

1530
4 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Baltic
Western Sudanic

Branch

-
Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Latvian
Yorùbá

Language Position

949
1 120
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Signed Forms

Latvian Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

lv
yo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

lav
yor

ISO 639 2/B

lav
yor

ISO 639 3

lav
yor

ISO 639 6

lav
yor

Glottocode

latv1249
yoru1245

Linguasphere

54-AAB-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

Latvian and Yoruba Alphabets

Latvian and Yoruba Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Latvian and Yoruba. In Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Latvian and Yoruba languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Latvian and Yoruba 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 Yoruba greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Latvian and Yoruba are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Latvian and Yoruba Speaking population

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

Latvian and Yoruba Language Codes

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