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The Latvian alphabet lacks Q (kū), W (dubultvē), X (iks) and Y (igrek). These letters are not used in Latvian for writing foreign personal and geographical names; instead they are adapted to Latvian phonology, orthography, and morphology, e. g. Džordžs Volkers Bušs (George Walker Bush). However, these four letters can be used in ...
Latvian names, like in most European cultures, consist of two main elements: the given name (vārds) followed by family name (uzvārds).During the Soviet occupation (1940–1941; 1944–1991) the practice of giving a middle name (otrais vārds) was discouraged, but since the restoration of independence, Latvian legislation again allows the giving of up to two given names and it has become more ...
Latvian (endonym: latviešu valoda, pronounced [ˈlatviɛʃu ˈvaluɔda]), [4] also known as Lettish, [5] is an East Baltic language belonging to the Indo-European language family. It is spoken in the Baltic region, and is the language of Latvians. It is the official language of Latvia as well as one of the official languages of the European ...
This is a list of heritage NATO country codes.Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
The symbol originates with the 15th-century Czech alphabet that was introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus. [1] [2] From there, it was first adopted into the Croatian alphabet by Ljudevit Gaj in 1830 to represent the same sound, [3] and from there on into other orthographies, such as Latvian, [4] Lithuanian, [5] Slovak, [6] Slovene, Karelian, Sami, Veps and Sorbian.
Latvian лꙗ ļa ꙗ jã: кꙑ ķī: хꙑ ķī List of words. List structure: Old East Slavic: Latvian "meaning" [] contain alternative/other form; Orthodoxy
Latvian roots may alternate between [v] and [u] depending on whether the following segment is a vowel or a consonant. For example, the root Dauga v - (' Daugava River ') in the nominative case is [dauɡa v ə] , but is pronounced [dauɡa u pils] in the city name Daugavpils .
The official records of Latvian names were often variously forcibly assimilated into the foreign culture dominant at times in Latvian lands. For example, local pastors, who were often of German descent, used to issue marriage and birth certificates with Germanized names: e.g., Kalns was written as Berg (both meaning "mountain" in Latvian and German respectively).