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Language Comparison: Latgalian vs Makassar
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Aspect | Latgalian | Makassar |
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Family | Indo-European, Baltic | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 165,000 | Approximately 2.1 million |
Features | A Baltic language variety closely related to Latvian but with distinct phonological, grammatical, and lexical features; recognized as a historical language in Latvia. | Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning. |
Countries | Latvia (primarily in the Latgale region), with smaller communities in Lithuania and emigrant populations worldwide | Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas) |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use) |
Tonal | No, but retains pitch accents from Proto-Baltic | No |
Grammatical Cases | Yes, retains the full Indo-European system of 7 cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative | No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Proto-Baltic | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Russian, Polish, and Latvian | From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch |
Dialects | Includes High Latgalian and Low Latgalian, with differences in pronunciation and vocabulary | Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar |
Alphabets | A, Ā, B, C, Č, D, E, Ē, F, G, Ģ, H, I, Ī, J, K, Ķ, L, Ļ, M, N, Ņ, O, P, R, S, Š, T, U, Ū, V, Z, Ž | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, NG, NY, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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