• It was introduced by law from 1920 to 1922 in the Republic of Latvia. Latvian orthography historically used a system based upon German phonetic principles...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Latgalian language (category CS1 Latvian-language sources (lv))
    (latgalīšu volūda, Latvian: latgaliešu valoda) is an Eastern Baltic language, although it is sometimes considered a dialect of Latvian. The Latvian language law...
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  • (vokatīvs) Latvian has two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine. Latvian nouns can be classified as either declinable or indeclinable. Most Latvian nouns...
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    (category CS1 Latvian-language sources (lv))
    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...
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    Vidzeme (redirect from Livonia (Latvia))
    [ˈvid̪͡z̪eme]; Old Latvian orthography: Widda-semme, Livonian: Vidūmō) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. The capital of Latvia, Riga, is situated...
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  • Romanian, Italian, Turkish, Spanish, Finnish, Czech, Latvian, Esperanto, Korean and Swahili orthographic systems come much closer to being consistent phonemic...
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  • use for clarification and abbreviation in the South. Latvian: Old versions of Latvian orthography were German-based, they were replaced by a more appropriate...
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    (category Latvian language)
    alphabet letter G, combined with a bar diacritic. It was used in Latvian orthography before 1921. The forms are represented in Unicode as: U+A7A0 Ꞡ LATIN...
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    (category Latvian language)
    Latin letter N and a stroke diacritic. Until 1921, it was used in Latvian orthography to represent the hard palatal nasal /ɲ/. It was replaced by Ņ (N...
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    The Communist Party of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Komunistiskā partija, LKP) was a political party in Latvia. The party was founded at a congress in June...
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  • Cedilla (category Articles containing Standard Latvian-language text)
    them with comma below diacritics to accommodate the expectations of Latvian orthography. This is considered nonstandard in Marshallese. The use of a zero-width...
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  • diminutive). Writing of Latvian names always conform to the highly phonetic Latvian orthography and in the case of foreign-born Latvian nationals or marriages...
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    Fraktur (category German orthography)
    16th century. In the Latvian variant of Fraktur, used mainly until the 1920s, there are additional characters used to denote Latvian letters with diacritical...
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    Latvianization (sometimes Lettization) is a cultural assimilation of something non-Latvian into Latvian. This process was an important component during...
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    Gospel of Matthew, published in 1880 in St. Petersburg, with an orthography based on Latvian and German. In the interwar period, there were several dozen...
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    with a macron, used in several orthographies. Ā is used to denote a long A. Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language. It is...
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  • An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and...
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  • Estonian orthography is the system used for writing the Estonian language and is based on the Latin alphabet. The Estonian orthography is generally guided...
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  • that is, c, g, h, j, and s circumflex, and u breve. Standard Esperanto orthography uses the Latin script. The letters have approximately the sound values...
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    (category Latvian language)
    diacritic. It was used in Latvian orthography until 1921, to represent palatalized dental trill /rʲ/. In modern orthography, it was replaced with Ŗ (R...
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  • Dutch orthography uses the Latin alphabet. The spelling system is issued by government decree and is compulsory for all government documentation and educational...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers...
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    (30 April 2009). Proposal to encode 10 Latin letters for pre-1921 Latvian orthography (PDF). L2/09-112R. Hesselberg, Heinrich (1841). Lettische Sprachlehre...
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  • Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed...
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  • ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic...
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    there on into other orthographies, such as Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Slovene, Karelian, Sami, Veps and Sorbian. Some orthographies such as Bulgarian...
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  • the Latin script use orthographic transcription for all foreign names: George Walker Bush is written Džordžs Volkers Bušs in Latvian (the ending -s marks...
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