Countries
European Union, Latvia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3348
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2436
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Paldies
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Labvakar
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Labdien
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Labrīt
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
lūdzu
कृपया
Sorry
Piedodiet!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Livonian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Latvia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Latvia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
latviešu valoda
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
letton
népalais
German Name
Lettisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1530
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Latvian
Nepali
Language Position
959
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
lv
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
nep
ISO 639 2/B
lav
nep
ISO 639 3
lav
npi
ISO 639 6
lav
nep
Glottocode
latv1249
nepa1254
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative