Language code: lv

Technical information about ISO 639 language code lv

The table below provides technical details for the Latvian language, designated by the lv code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

lv

Name

Official

Latvian

Native

Latviešu valoda

Family
Baltic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Latvian belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Baltic subgroup. It is the official language of Latvia. It is written using the Latin script (Latvian alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 1.7 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

1.8M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Latvian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

lv-LV Latvian (Latvia)

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