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Latvian

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Latvian or Lettish (lĕt`ĭsh), a language belonging to the Baltic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Baltic languages Baltic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The Indo-European subfamily to which the Baltic languages appear to be closest is the Slavic.
..... Click the link for more information. ). The mother tongue of close to 3 million persons living chiefly in Latvia, Latvian first became that country's official language in 1918, the year in which Latvian independence was won. In the pronunciation of Latvian, stress is placed on the first syllable of a word. Grammatically, both nouns and verbs are highly inflected. Since 1922, Latvian has used the Roman alphabet (supplemented by several diacritical signs) for writing. The oldest surviving texts in Latvian date from the late 16th cent.

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See T. G. Fennel and H. A. Gelsen, Grammar of Modern Latvian (1980).
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