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.
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.
Speakers
1.8M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Latvian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
lv-LV
– Latvian (Latvia)
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