Latvian

Examples

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• In many countries, that percentage is even higher—for instance, 99 percent of Luxembourgers and 95 percent of Latvians speak more than one language.

  Blog text (22)

• My companions at our round table are two Latvians, a Romanian, a Belgian, a Filipino, an Israeli, a Turk, and another American.

  Academic text (1998)

• But still the Latvians don't love him.

  Fiction book (1994)

• "As for the Latvians, they are not too enamored of the Russians, of course, but there's nothing they can do about it.

  Fiction book (1994)

• I knew a lot of Estonians, Latvians, and Hungarians working as engineering lab technicians who would have been qualified engineers in their own countries.

  Blog text (7)

• Latvians, denied their democratic rights for more than fifty years, passed a citizenship law in 1992 that denied the right to vote to all the country's Russians, save those who had lived in Latvia prior to 1940 and their descendants.

  Academic text (1992)

• "Tens of thousands of Latvians came to celebrate a dream they believe is coming true."

• "History is on the side of the Lithuanians, the Estonians, and the Latvians."

• "More than two-thirds of ethnic Latvians unambiguously back NATO membership."

Synonyms

L

Lett

vsLatvian

• Archaic

9.9

An old name for the Latvian language or a person from Latvia

is the modern neutral term used today instead of the older form

Surface Forms

Etymology