Countries
European Union, Latvia
China
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
China
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
-
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3336
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
99
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2427
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
Paldies
rakhmat
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Ar labunakti
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
Labvakar
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
Labdien
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
Labrīt
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
lūdzu
birdam
Sorry
Piedodiet!
kachurung
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Livonian
Turpan
Where They Speak
Latvia
China
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Hotan
Where They Speak
Latvia
China
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
High Latvian
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
China
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
latviešu valoda
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
letton
ouïgour
German Name
Lettisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Uyghur
Origin
1530
11
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Baltic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Latvian
Uyghur
Language Position
998
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
lv
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
uig
ISO 639 2/B
lav
uig
ISO 639 3
lav
uig
ISO 639 6
lav
uig
Glottocode
latv1249
uigh1240
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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