Baltic language with approx. 1.5 million speakers in Latvia. Religious literature dates to the Reformation, secular literature exists since the eighteenth century. The orthography is based on the Latin alphabet with diacritic marks, including , , , ....

Latvian (latviešu valoda), sometimes referred to as Lettish, is the official state language of the Republic of Latvia. There are about 1.5 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 200,000 abroad. Latvian belongs to the Eastern Baltic...