The modern Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the pronunciation of the language. The standard alphabet...

million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and 100,000 abroad. Altogether, 2 million, or 80% of the population of Latvia, spoke Latvian in the 2000s, before...

volūda, Latvian: latgaliešu valoda) is an East Baltic language; it is sometimes considered a dialect of Latvian. The language law of Latvia classifies...

(vokatīvs) Latvian has two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine. Latvian nouns can be classified as either declinable or indeclinable. Most Latvian nouns...

diacritics: Ƙ ƙ, Ꝁ ꝁ, Ḱ ḱ, Ǩ ǩ, Ḳ ḳ, Ķ ķ, ᶄ, Ⱪ ⱪ, Ḵ ḵ Ꞣ and ꞣ were used in Latvian orthography before 1921 The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet uses various forms of the...

with oblique stroke) is an extended Latin letter that was used in Latvian orthography until 1921; ꞩ was also used in Lower Sorbian until 1950. A variant...

[ˈvid̪͡z̪eme]; Old Latvian orthography: Widda-semme, Livonian: Vidūmō) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. The capital of Latvia, Riga, is situated...

use for clarification and abbreviation in the South. Latvian: Old versions of Latvian orthography were German-based, they were replaced by a more appropriate...

diminutive). Writing of Latvian names always conform to the highly phonetic Latvian orthography and in the case of foreign-born Latvian nationals or marriages...

Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed...