Latvian language

Latvian
latviešu valoda
Native toLatvia, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela, Finland
RegionEurope
Native speakers
native 1.39 million (Latvia)
150,000 (Abroad)
1.54 million (Worldwide)
second language: 500,000
Roman script
Official status
Official language in
Latvia, European Union
Regulated byLatvian State Language Center
Language codes
ISO 639-1lv
ISO 639-2lav
ISO 639-3lav

Latvian (Latvian: latviešu valoda), also called Lettish or Lettisch, is the official state language of Latvia. It is estimated that it has 1.75 million native speakers in Latvia.

The Latvian alphabet has 33 letters. The letters are based on the Latin alphabet. Along with the Lithuanian language, Latvian is the only living Baltic language.

References

  1. ↑ "Ethnologue report for language code:lav". Retrieved 2008-06-09.
  2. ↑ Praulinš, Dace (2012-03-12). Latvian: An Essential Grammar. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-34536-4.
  3. ↑ "What Languages Are Spoken In Latvia?". WorldAtlas. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  4. ↑ Wright, Richard. "Latvian Alphabet". www.languagehelpers.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-03. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  5. ↑ Campbell, George L.; King, Gareth (2020-07-01). Compendium of the World's Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-25845-9.

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