Latvian language
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Latvian Latviešu Valoda |
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Spoken in: | Latvia, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela, | |
Region: | Europe | |
Total speakers: | native 1.39 million (Latvia) 150,000 (Abroad) 1.54 million (Worldwide)[1] second language: 500,000 |
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Ranking: | 160th | |
Language family: | Indo-European Baltic Eastern Latvian |
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Writing system: | Roman script | |
Official status | ||
Official language of: | Latvia, European Union | |
Regulated by: | Latvian State Language Center | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | lv | |
ISO 639-2: | lav | |
ISO 639-3: | lav | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Latvian language (Latvian: latviešu valoda), is the official state language of Latvia. It is also callled Lettish and Lettisch.
[change] References
- ↑ Ethnologue report for language code:lav. Retrieved on 9 June 2008.
[change] Other websites
- Latvian Language Law in English
- The Latvian Alphabet
- Examples of Latvian words and phrases (with sound)
- Latvian for beginners