Latvian
Baltic language, official in Latvia and the European Union
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Key Facts
- Country: Latvia[3]
- Instance of: macrolanguage[4], modern language[5]
- Subclass of: East Baltic[6]
- Writing system: Latvian alphabet[7], Latvian Braille[8]
- Commons category: Latvian language[9]
- Wikimedia language code: lv[10]
- Has part(s): Kursenieki[11], Semigallian[12], Latgalian[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Latvian language[14]
- Language regulatory body: Latvian State Language Center[15]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1,500,000[16]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[19]
- Topic has template: Template:-lv-[20]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/latvian[21]
- Native label: latviešu valoda[22]
- Short name: латвиаг[23], латвийски[24], латышская[25]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[26]
- Indigenous to: Latvia[27]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LAV[28], https://afbo.info/languages/63[29]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[30], genitive case[31], dative case[32], accusative case[33], instrumental case[34], locative case[35], vocative case[36]
- Has tense: present tense[37], past tense[38], future tense[39]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[40], register[41], fusional language[42], adjective-noun[43], pitch accent[44], synthetic language[45], nominative–accusative language[46]
Why It Matters
Latvian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] Latvian is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]