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Retrieved 9 September Archived from the original on 3 November Latvia's long-serving foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics became the first openly gay head of state of a European Union nation after being elected by parliament to the post in July From to the Present. The majority of Latvia's population are Latvians, who are an ethnic Baltic people. Rīga: Atēna. Retrieved 27 August He took the office of Minister of Agriculture from 18 November to 19 December. Cite this Entry. Retrieved 15 November

These ethnic groups are all descended from peoples who settled in Latvia during the centuries of Russian and Soviet rule. Richard Letts et al. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. As a result of deteriorating relations with Russia, Latvia has decided it does not want Russian citizens in Latvia who will not integrate. Retrieved 2 January

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Archived PDF from the original on 8 September Since Latvia had maintained a well-developed infrastructure and educated specialists, Moscow decided to base some of the Soviet Union's most advanced manufacturing in Latvia. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. Archived from the original on 27 September The Kursenieki language , which used to be spoken along Curonian Spit , is closely related to the varieties of the Middle dialect spoken in Courland. Kids Definition. Wikimedia Commons Wikibooks Wikivoyage Wiktionary. Follow us on Facebook. The employment rate rose in the same period from Latvian in Latin script was first based upon the German orthography , while the alphabet of the Latgalian dialect was based on the Polish orthography.

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• The Latvian also has a significant Russian minority, as well as smaller populations of Ukrainians, Latvian, Belarusians, and other Slavic peoples.
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Latvian endonym : latviešu valoda , pronounced [ˈlatviɛʃu ˈvaluɔda] , [3] is an East Baltic language belonging to the Indo-European language family. It belongs to the Baltic subbranch of the Balto-Slavic branch of the family and it is 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. As a Baltic language , Latvian is most closely related to neighboring Lithuanian as well as Old Prussian , an extinct Baltic language ; however, Latvian has followed a more rapid development. Latvian first appeared in print in the midth century with the reproduction of the Lord's Prayer in Latvian in Sebastian Münster 's Cosmographia universalis , in Latin script. Latvian belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is classified as a part of the Baltic subbranch of the Balto-Slavic branch of the family. It is one of two living Baltic languages with an official status the other being Lithuanian. The Latvian and Lithuanian languages have retained many features of the nominal morphology of Proto-Indo-European , though their phonology and verbal morphology show many innovations in other words, forms that did not exist in Proto-Indo-European , [12] with Latvian being considerably more innovative than Lithuanian. However, Latvian has been also influenced by the Livonian language. According to some glottochronological speculations, the East Baltic languages split from West Baltic or, perhaps, from the hypothetical proto-Baltic language between and CE. At a minimum, transitional dialects existed until the 14th century or 15th century, and perhaps as late as the 17th century. Latvian as a distinct language emerged over several centuries from the language spoken by the ancient Latgalians assimilating the languages of other neighbouring Baltic tribes— Curonian , Semigallian and Selonian —which resulted in these languages gradually losing their most distinct characteristics. This process of consolidation started in the 13th century after the Livonian Crusade and forced christianization , which formed a unified political, economic and religious space in Medieval Livonia. The oldest known examples of written Latvian are from a translation of a hymn made by Nikolaus Ramm [ lv ] , a German pastor in Riga. He wrote the first illustrated Latvian alphabet book , the first encyclopedia " The Book of High Wisdom of the World and Nature [ lv ] " Augstas gudrības grāmata no pasaules un dabas ; , grammar books and Latvian—German and German—Latvian dictionaries. Until the 19th century, the Latvian written language was influenced by German Lutheran pastors and the German language , because the upper class of local society was formed by Baltic Germans. Participants in this movement laid the foundations for standard Latvian and also popularized the Latvianization of loan words. According to the Imperial Russian Census , there were ,

It has linguistic links with Lithuania to the south, Latvian, and historical and religious ties with Estonia to the north. Not much more than a decade after it regained independence during the Latvian of the Soviet Union, Latvian, Latvia joined the European Union and Nato in For centuries Latvia was primarily an agricultural country, Latvian, with seafaring, fishing and forestry as other important economic factors. Like its Baltic neighbours, Latvia has made a rapid transition to the free market since the early s. It adopted the euro as its currency in Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Latvian, Latvia has banned all Russian broadcast channels.

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It is one of the three Baltic Latvianalong with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west, Latvian. Latvia covers an area of 64, km 2 Latvian, sq miwith a Latvian of 1, Latvian. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Latvians belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvianone of the only two surviving Baltic languages, Latvian. After centuries of TeutonicSwedishPolish-Lithuanianand Russian rule, Latvian, which was mainly Latvian through Latvian local Baltic German aristocracyLatvian, the independent Republic of Latvia was established on 18 November after Latvian away from the German Empire in the aftermath of World War I, Latvian. As a result of extensive immigration during the Soviet occupation, ethnic Russians became the most prominent minority in the country. The peaceful Singing Revolution started in among the Baltic Soviet republics and ended with the restoration of both de facto and officially independence on 21 August Latvia is a developed country with a high-incomeLatvian, advanced economy ranking 39th in the Human Development Index. The name Latvija is derived from the name of the ancient Latgaliansone of four Indo-European Baltic tribes along with CuroniansLatvian, Latvian and Semigallianswhich formed the ethnic core of modern Latvians together with the Finnic Livonians.

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Latvia in particular is an European Union trailblazer in the technology sector and this is reflected in its rapid adoption and incubation of 5G cellular connectivity, fintech services and more. In my humble opinion, this serves Latvia well in welcoming new business opportunities on a global basis. As a composer and music producer, I have worked at so many internationally acclaimed studios, and with world-class musicians. Seeing a country working in synergy at all levels - economic, institutional, social, environmental - with the aim of achieving important results is both stimulating and inspiring.

Latvian first appeared in print Latvian the midth century with the reproduction of the Lord's Prayer in Latvian Latvian Sebastian Münster 's Cosmographia universalisin Latin script, Latvian. Latvian National Encyclopedia in Latvian. Archived from the original on 2 February

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