Countries
India
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Latvia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Latvian State Language Center
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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.
Similar To
Munda Language
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
Sveiki
Thank You
Adi Johar
Paldies
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
Labdien
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
Labrīt
Please
দয়া করে
lūdzu
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Piedodiet!
Bye
Hariau
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Mahali
Livonian
Where They Speak
India
Latvia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
-
Latvia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
High Latvian
Where They Speak
-
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Lettish
French Name
santal
letton
German Name
Santali
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Latvians or Letts
Origin
20th century
1530
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Baltic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Latvian
Language Position
419
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
lav
ISO 639 2/B
sat
lav
ISO 639 3
sat
lav
ISO 639 6
sat
lav
Glottocode
sant1410
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic