Language code: lav
Technical information about ISO 639 language code lav
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The table below provides technical details for the Latvian language, designated by the lav code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Latvian Native Latviešu valoda |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Central LatvianLivonian (Tāmian) LatvianHigh Latvian |
| Related languages | LithuanianLatgalianSamogitianOld Prussian |
| Key facts | It belongs to the Eastern Baltic branch of the Indo-European familyThe language preserves a two-tone pitch accent systemNouns decline for seven grammatical cases and two numbersThe oldest surviving texts in Latvian date back to 16th-century Lutheran catechismsModern standard Latvian was chiefly codified during the late 19th and early 20th centuries |
| Sample phrase | Sveiki, kā jums klājas? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-4, ISO 8859-13, Windows 1257, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
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The Latvian language, identified by the code lav, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.
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