Latvian language

Latvian language

Latvian (latviešu valoda [ˈlatviɛʃu ˈvaluɔda]), also known as Lettish, is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 1.3 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and 100,000 abroad. Altogether, 2 million, or 80% of the population of Latvia, speak Latvian. Of those, around 1.16 million or 62% of Latvia's population use it as their primary language at home, however excluding the Latgale Region it is spoken as a native language in villages and towns by over 90% of the population.

Altname
enLettish
Ancestor
Proto-Baltic language
Proto-Indo-European language
Category
enLatvian language
Comment
enLatvian (latviešu valoda [ˈlatviɛʃu ˈvaluɔda]), also known as Lettish, is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 1.3 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and 100,000 abroad. Altogether, 2 million, or 80% of the population of Latvia, speak Latvian. Of those, around 1.16 million or 62% of Latvia's population use it as their primary language at home, however excluding the Latgale Region it is spoken as a native language in villages and towns by over 90% of the population.
Date
2015
Depiction
Baltic Tribes c 1200.svg
Curonians kursenieki in 1649.png
Dictionarium Polono-Latino-Lothavicum opus posthumum (Dictionary of the Polish-Latin-Latvian languages) by Georgs Elgers, Vilnius, 1683.jpg
Latvaldialekti.svg
Latvian as primary language at home by municipalities and cities (2011).svg
Latvian Ergonomic Keyboard Layout.png
Old latvian bible.jpg
Ethnicity
Latvians
Fam
Baltic languages
Balto-Slavic languages
Eastern Baltic languages
Familycolor
enIndo-European
Glotto
enlatv1249
Glottorefname
enLatvian
Has abstract
enLatvian (latviešu valoda [ˈlatviɛʃu ˈvaluɔda]), also known as Lettish, is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 1.3 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and 100,000 abroad. Altogether, 2 million, or 80% of the population of Latvia, speak Latvian. Of those, around 1.16 million or 62% of Latvia's population use it as their primary language at home, however excluding the Latgale Region it is spoken as a native language in villages and towns by over 90% of the population. As a Baltic language, Latvian is most closely related to neighboring Lithuanian (as well as Old Prussian, an extinct Baltic language); however Latvian has followed a more rapid development. In addition, there is some disagreement whether Latgalian and Kursenieki, which are mutually intelligible with Latvian, should be considered varieties or separate languages. Latvian first appeared in print in the mid-16th century with the reproduction of the Lord's Prayer in Latvian in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia universalis (1544), in Latin script.
Homepage
likumi.lv/ta/en/en/id/14740-official-language-law
Hypernym
Language
Iso
enlav
enlv
Iso6391Code
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Iso6392Code
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Iso6393Code
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Is primary topic of
Latvian language
Label
enLatvian language
LanguageFamily
Baltic languages
Balto-Slavic languages
Eastern Baltic languages
Lc
enltg
enlvs
Ld
Latgalian language
Standard Latvian language
Lingua
54
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likumi.lv/ta/en/en/id/14740-official-language-law
dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/54312
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latvian_Swadesh_list
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Swadesh_lists
www.dicts.info/dictlist1.php%3Fl=Latvian
www.acl.lv/en/
www.lvavp.lv/
www.vvk.lv/
web.archive.org/web/20060410080305/http:/www.letonika.lv/dictionary/
web.archive.org/web/20070916092434/http:/www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Latvian-english/
web.archive.org/web/20120223164907/http:/www.websters-online-dictionary.org/
web.archive.org/web/20070927004152/http:/www.latvianstuff.com/Language.html
www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/december/Latvian.html%23stru
www.latvijasradio.lv/lapas/lv_tiesraide.htm
www.languagehelpers.com
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1897 Imperial Russian Census
A
Accusative case
Adalbert Bezzenberger
Administrative divisions of Latvia
Affricate consonant
Alphabet book
AltGr key
Alveolar consonant
Approximant consonant
Back vowel
Baltic Germans
Baltic languages
Baltic region
Balto-Slavic languages
Belarusian language
Belarusians
Bible translations into Latvian
C
Calque
Capital letters
Caron
Category:Languages of Latvia
Category:Latvian language
Category:Subject–verb–object languages
Census
Central vowel
Christianization
Close-mid vowel
Close vowel
Consonant voicing and devoicing
Courland
Curonian language
Curonian Spit
Cyrillic script
Dative case
Dead key
Declension
Dental consonant
Diacritic
Dialect
Diphthong
E
Eastern Baltic languages
English language
Estonian language
Euro
European Central Bank
European Union
Fall of the Soviet Union
File:Baltic Tribes c 1200.svg
File:Curonians kursenieki in 1649.png
File:Dictionarium Polono-Latino-Lothavicum opus posthumum (Dictionary of the Polish-Latin-Latvian languages) by Georgs Elgers, Vilnius, 1683.jpg
File:Latvaldialekti.svg
File:Latvian Ergonomic Keyboard Layout.png
File:Old latvian bible.jpg
Final-obstruent devoicing
Finnic languages
Finno-Ugric languages
Fricative consonant
Front vowel
Genitive case
Georg Mancelius
German alphabet
German language
German Lutherans
Glottochronology
Gotthard Friedrich Stender
Governorate of Courland
Governorate of Livonia
Grammatical gender
Grammatical number
I
Indo-European language family
Indo-European languages
Influencer
Instant payment
Instrumental case
Intonation (linguistics)
Jānis Endzelīns
Johann Ernst Glück
Kārlis Mīlenbahs
Kursenieki language
Labial consonant
Language classification
Latgale
Latgalian language
Latgalians (modern)
Latin script
Latvia
Latvian alphabet
Latvian Braille
Latvian Germans
Latvian Jews
Latvian Language Agency
Latvians
Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
Lecropt
List of Latin letters
List of Latvian words borrowed from Old East Slavic
Lithuanian language
Livonia
Livonian Crusade
Livonian language
Livonians
Locative case
Lord's Prayer
Lower case
Lutheranism
Macron (diacritic)
Medieval Livonia
Middle Low German
Modifier key
Mutually intelligible
Nasal stop
Nominative case
Numerical keypad
Old Prussian language
On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia
Open vowel
Orthographic transcription
Orthography
Palatal consonant
Palatalization (phonetics)
Personal name
Petrus Canisius
Phoneme
Poles
Polish alphabet
Polish language
Postalveolar consonant
Prefix (linguistics)
Printing press
Proto-Baltic
Proto-Baltic language
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Indo-European language
QWERTY
Riga
Riga Latvian Society
Romany language
Russian language
Russians
Russification
S
Sebastian Münster
Selonian (language)
Selonian language
Semigallian language
SMS
Sonorant
Standard language
Standard Latvian language
Stop consonant
Stream
Subject–verb–object
Substratum
Swedish language
Swedish Livonia
Syllable
The First Latvian National Awakening
The New Testament
The Old Testament
The Rosetta Edition
Tillicoultry
Transliteration
Transport
Trill consonant
U
Ukrainian language
Ukrainians
Uppsala University Library
Variety (linguistics)
Velar consonant
Verb
Vidzeme
Vocative case
Vowel length
Windows-1252
Windows-1257
Word salad
Yiddish language
Young Latvians
Z
Mapcaption
enUse of Latvian as the primary language at home in 2011 by municipalities of Latvia
Name
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Name
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Nativename
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Notice
enIPA
Ref
ene18
Region
Baltic region
SameAs
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Idioma letón
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Idioma letón
Język łotewski
Latbhais
Latfieg
Läti keel
Latish tili
Latva lingvo
Latveg
Latviana linguo
Latvian kieli
Latvian language
Latvian language
Latvie leid
Latviešu valoda
Latvijščina
Latvijski jezik
Latvijski jezik
Latvisk
Latvisk
Latvių kalba
Latış dili
Lenga leton-a
Lengua leton
Letišćina
Letó
Leton
Letonca
Letoniera
Letonski jezik
Lets
Lets
Lets
Letsk
Lettische Sprache
Lettische Sproch
Lettisk (sprog)
Lettiska
Lettiskt mál
Lettneska
Lett nyelv
Letton
Lettsche Spraak
Limba letonă
Lineton
Língua letã
Lingua letoa
Lingua lettone
Lingua Lettonica
Litunya simi
Lotyština
Lotyština
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Pinulongang Leton
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Tiếng Latvia
Wikang Latbiyano
Zimanê letonî
Łéngua lètona
Λετονική γλώσσα
Латвийски език
Латвиски јазик
Латви хэл
Латиська мова
Латышийн мотт
Латышская мова
Латышский язык
Латыш теле
Латыш теле
Латыш тили
Латыш тілі
Латыш чĕлхи
Летонски језик
Լատիշերեն
לטבית
לעטיש
اللغة اللاتفية
زبان لتونیایی
زمانی لاتیڤی
لاتفى
لاتیش دیلی
لٹویائی
لیٹویائی زبان
लातवियाई भाषा
लात्भियाया भाषा
लात्व्हियन भाषा
ਲਾਤਵੀਆਈ
இலத்துவிய மொழி
ภาษาลัตเวีย
ლატვიური ენა
ላትቪኛ
ラトビア語
拉脱维亚语
라트비아어
Script
Latin script
Latvian Braille
Speakers
1750000
Spoken in
Baltic region
Latvia
States
Latvia
Subject
Category:Languages of Latvia
Category:Latvian language
Category:Subject–verb–object languages
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