Countries
Countries
European Union, Latvia
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2428
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Sveiki
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Paldies
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Labvakar
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Labdien
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Labrīt
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
lūdzu
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Piedodiet!
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Livonian
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Latvia
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Latvia
Kartli
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Pshavian
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.004,000,000.00
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 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.75 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
latviešu valoda
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Lettish
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
letton
géorgien
German Name
Lettisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Georgians
History
Origin
1530
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Southern
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Latvian
Modern Georgian
Language Position
9120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
Code
ISO 639 1
lv
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
kat
ISO 639 2/B
lav
geo
ISO 639 3
lav
kat
ISO 639 6
lav
kat
Glottocode
latv1249
nucl1302
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic