Countries
European Union, Latvia
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
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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.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Lithuanian Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
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Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3337
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Xin chào
Thank You
Paldies
Cam on
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
Ar labunakti
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
Labvakar
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
Labdien
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
Labrīt
Chào buổi sáng
Please
lūdzu
xin vui lòng
Sorry
Piedodiet!
Xin lỗi
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
Tạm biệt
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Livonian
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Latvia
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Latvia
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
High Latvian
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.75 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
latviešu valoda
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
letton
vietnamien
German Name
Lettisch
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
1530
c. 1440
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Baltic
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Latvian
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
vie
ISO 639 2/B
lav
vie
ISO 639 3
lav
vie
ISO 639 6
lav
vie
Glottocode
latv1249
viet1252
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating