Countries
European Union, Latvia
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Turkey
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
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
Merhaba
Thank You
Paldies
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Ar labunakti
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Labvakar
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Labdien
Tünaydın
Good Morning
Labrīt
günaydın
Please
lūdzu
lütfen
Sorry
Piedodiet!
üzgünüm
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Livonian
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Latvia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Latvia
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
High Latvian
Gagauz
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
latviešu valoda
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Lettish
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
letton
turc
German Name
Lettisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Turkish
Origin
1530
c. 1350
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Latvian
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
919
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
tur
ISO 639 2/B
lav
tur
ISO 639 3
lav
tur
ISO 639 6
lav
tur
Glottocode
latv1249
nucl1301
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic