Sveiki!
say it: “SVAY-kee”
Latvian
in its own words: latviešu
- Speakers
- 1.7 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Baltic
- Vitality
- Vulnerable
- Where it is spoken
- Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russian Federation
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Latvia
Fun fact
Together with Lithuanian it forms the East Baltic branch of Indo-European; the West Baltic languages, such as Old Prussian, are extinct.