Latvian language

Latvian (Latvian: latviešu valoda), also called Lettish or Lettisch, is the official state language of Latvia.^[2] It is estimated that it has 1.75 million native speakers in Latvia.^[3]

Latvian
latviešu valoda
Native to	Latvia, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela, Finland
Region	Europe
Native speakers	native 1.39 million (Latvia) 150,000 (Abroad) 1.54 million (Worldwide)[1] second language: 500,000
Language family	Indo-European Baltic Eastern Latvian
Writing system	Roman script
Official status
Official language in	Latvia, European Union
Regulated by	Latvian State Language Center
Language codes
ISO 639-1	lv
ISO 639-2	lav
ISO 639-3	lav

The Latvian alphabet has 33 letters. The letters are based on the Latin alphabet.^[4] Along with the Lithuanian language, Latvian is the only living Baltic language.^[5]

Related pages

• Riga
• Baltic states
• Eastern Europe
• Uralic languages
• Roma people in Latvia
• Balto-Slavic languages