Professional Translator, Quality service Latvian is the official language of Latvia, about 2.5 million people speak it worldwide.
Latvian speakers live in the United States, Russia, Australia, and Canada.
Small communities of speakers live in Germany, UK, Sweden, Lithuania, Ukraine, Brazil, Estonian, Belarus, New Zealand, and Venezuela as well. Latvian belongs the Indo-European language family. Its basis is the Roman alphabet . The Latvian alphabet has forty-eight letters. A distinguishing feature for standard Latvian is the use of the macron over vowels to indicate vowel length.