Latvian language (latviešu valoda)

Spoken mainly:	In Latvia
Language family:	Indo-European
Language group:	Baltic
Writing system:	Latin script
Native speakers:	about 2 million
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Some facts about Latvian

• The closest relatives of the Latvian language among the Baltic languages are Latgalian and Lithuanian. The Slavonic languages are historically the closest to the languages of the Baltic branch.
• The oldest known example of written Latvian was presented by Nikolaus Ramm, a protestant pastor, who partly translated the Bible into Latvian in 1530.
• Primary word stress is on the first syllable. Apparently, it is one of the structural influences of the Finno-Ugric languages.
• Like Russian, Latvian is a fusional language and has a developed system of declensions and conjugations.

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