Language/Standard-latvian

This lesson can still be improved. EDIT IT NOW! & become VIP

Rate this lesson:

5.00

(one vote)

Help - Comments

Hi Polyglots! 😃

Welcome to the Standard Latvian learning page!

You will find below many free resources to learn and practice this language.

Enjoy your learning journey with Polyglot Club! 😊

Facts about Standard Latvian[edit | edit source]

Language code (ISO 639-3): lvs
Autonyms (how to write "Standard Latvian" in Standard Latvian): Latviešu / latviešu valoda
Other names for "Standard Latvian": Latviešu valoda,Latviski ("Lettisch","Lettish")
The Standard Latvian language is spoken in: Latvia

Latvian, also known as Lettish, is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 1.3 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and 100,000 abroad. Altogether, 2 million, or 80% of the population of Latvia, speak Latvian.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_language

Latvian Dictionaries[edit | edit source]

• Tēzaurs: Latvian dictionaries (meanings in Latvian), Latvian-German dictionaries (18^th-20^th centuries)

• Mūsdienu latviešu valodas vārdnīca: dictionary of contemporary Latvian

• Latviešu literārās valodas vārdnīca: dictionary of the literary Latvian language

• Letonika: Latvian-English dictionary & German, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, Latin

• Latvijas vēstures enciklopēdija: Latvian historical encyclopedia

• Lingea: Latvian-English dictionary & multilingual

• Iate: multilingual terminological dictionary (European Union)

• Latvian-Latgalian dictionary

• Loecsen: Latvian-English common phrases (+ audio)

• Goethe-Verlag: Latvian-English common phrases & illustrated vocabulary (+ audio)

• LanguageHelpers: Latvian-English vocabulary, common phrases & alphabet (+ audio)

• Latvian-English vocabulary by topics

• Latvian-Liv-English vocabulary: tourism

• Спортивный словарь [PDF] Russian-English-Latvian-German Sport vocabulary

• Wiktionary: etymology of Latvian words

• [database project]: Baltic etymology (Latvian, Lithuanian)

• Deutsch-lettisches Wörterbuch [PDF] Latvian-German dictionary, by Jēkabs Dravnieks (1910)

• Kreewu-latweeschu-wahzu wardnice: Russian-Latvian-German dictionary by Krišjānis Valdemārs (1872)

• Color names in Kreewu-latweeschu-wahzu wardnice, by Anitra Roze, in Acta baltico-slavica (2015)

• Lettisches Wörterbuch [PDF] Latvian-German dictionary, by Carl Christian Ulmann (1872)

• Deutsch-lettisches Wörterbuch [PDF] German-Latvian dictionary (1880)

• Lettisches Lexikon & Deutsch-lettisch: Latvian-German dictionary, by Gotthard Friedrich Stender (Gothards Frīdrihs Stenders) (1789)

• Vollständiges deutschlettisches Lexicon & Lettischdeutsches Lexicon: Latvian-German dictionary, by Jakob Lange (1777)

• Wörter-Büchlein, wie etzliche gebräuchliche Sachen auff Teutsch, Schwedisch, Polnisch und Lettisch zu benennen seynd (1705)

• Wörter-Büchlein, a German-Swedish-Polish-Latvian dictionary published in Riga in 1705 : introduction edited by Lennart Larsson (2011)

• The sea, especially the Baltic Sea, from the point of view of Latvians and Latvian language, by Ojārs Bušs, in Sea names: heritage, perception and international relations (2015)

• Word-formation pattern borrowing in Latvian by Andrejs Veisbergs, in Baltic Journal of English Language (2018)

• Zum Einfluss des Lettischen auf das Deutsche im Baltikum: on the influence of Latvian on German in the Baltic area, by Ineta Polanska, thesis (2003)