Countries
European Union, Latvia
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3331
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2426
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Paldies
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
Labvakar
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
Labdien
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
Labrīt
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
lūdzu
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Piedodiet!
жал (žal)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Livonian
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Latvia
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Debar
Where They Speak
Latvia
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Galičnik
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
328
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
latviešu valoda
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
letton
macédonien
German Name
Lettisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Macedonians
Origin
1530
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Latvian
Macedonian
Language Position
945
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
lav
mac
ISO 639 3
lav
mkd
ISO 639 6
lav
mkd
Glottocode
latv1249
mace1250
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic