the Constitution of Latvia form the foundation for language policy in Latvia, declaring Latvian to be the official state language and affirming the rights...

Russian language is spoken by a significant minority in Latvia. According to the External Migration Survey in 2017, it was the native language of 36% of...

Language policy is both an interdisciplinary academic field and implementation of ideas about language use. Some scholars such as Joshua Fishman and Ofelia...

In Latvia, Russians have been the largest ethnic minority in the country for the last two centuries. The number of Russians in Latvia more than quadrupled...

Latvian national awakening. The first notable process of Latvianization was during the First Latvian National Awakening, when Germanisms in Latvian started...

Latvian Sign Language (Latvian: latviešu zīmju valoda) is a sign language commonly used by deaf people in Latvia. Linguists use LSL as an acronym for Latvian...

Indo-European language family. It is spoken in the Baltic region, and is the language of the Latvians. It is the official language of Latvia as well as one...

referendums to change Latvia's constitution for minorities' benefit. Russian language in Latvia Language policy in Latvia Russians in Latvia Maksimovtsova, Ksenia...

Republic of Latvia. The purpose of the State Language Centre is to implement the national policy on the use of the official language - Latvian. The Centre...

Ukrainians into Latvian SSR and other Baltic republics as possible and the resulting skewed ethnic composition and low Latvian language proficiency among...

Alliance (Latvian: Nacionālā apvienība, NA), officially the National Alliance "All for Latvia!" – "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK" (Latvian: Nacionālā...

Latvian: latgaliešu valoda) is an East Baltic language. The language law of Latvia classifies it as a "historical variant of the Latvian language"....

The Progressives (Latvian: Progresīvie ['pɾɔgɾesiːviɛ], PRO) is a social-democratic and green political party in Latvia. The party was founded on 25 February...

Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia...

Court of Latvia and the Supreme Court of Latvia. It also supported the 2012 initiative to make Russian a co-official language in Latvia. In January 2014...

Front of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Tautas fronte) was a political organisation in Latvia in the late 1980s and early 1990s which led Latvia to its independence...

Religion in Latvia (2019 estimate) Lutheranism 36.51 (36.0%) Catholicism 19 (18.7%) Eastern Orthodoxy 13.49 (13.3%) Other Christians 1.42 (1.40%) None...

(art. 3(3) TEU). In the EU, language policy is the responsibility of member states, and the EU does not have a common language policy; EU institutions...

Language policy in Ukraine is based on its Constitution, international treaties and on domestic legislation. According to article 10 of the Constitution...

fair'. This meaning is retained in the two modern Baltic languages, where baltas in Lithuanian and balts in Latvian mean "white". However, the modern...

language. At the same time these policies banned Latvian language from public sphere, especially schools, which was a heavy blow to the new Latvian culture...

"Vårt land", which was only later translated to Finnish. Within language policy making in Finland, Taxell's paradox refers to the notion that monolingual...

The foreign relations of Latvia are primarily managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The modern Republic of Latvia considers itself a continuation...

history of the Jews in Latvia dates back to the first Jewish colony established in Piltene in 1571. Jews contributed to Latvia's development until the...

The Bank of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Banka,) is the national central bank for Latvia within the Eurosystem. It was the Latvian central bank from 1922...

assimilation in which non-Russians adopt Russian culture and Russian language either voluntarily or as a result of a deliberate state policy. Russification...

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January 2026, all content created by Latvian public media (including LSM) should be only in Latvian or a language that "belongs to the European cultural...

The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Also known as the Latvian SSR, or Latvia) was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1941, and...

The Latvian Green Party (Latvian: Latvijas Zaļā partija, LZP) is a green conservative political party in Latvia. Founded in 1990, the party was a member...