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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

lav

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

Supported in Localizely

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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