Latvian in a sentence

For example, Latvian has two words for "telephone" – "tālrunis" and "telefons", the former being a direct translation into Latvian of the latter international term. Still others are older or more euphonic loanwords rather than Latvian words.

A meeting will also take place on Wednesday between the Estonian and Latvian Ministers of Foreign Affairs, which will be followed by the Estonian-Latvian Language Award ceremony.

Penobscot Language School, 28 Gay Street, Rockland, continues its cultural dinner series on Friday, November 15, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. with a Latvian meal and independence celebration featuring a traditional Latvian birthday sweetbread.

Latvian woman’s decomposed body, detached head found a month after going missing from yoga retreatLiga Skromane, 32, a Latvian woman living and working in Ireland, was found in India more than a month after going missing from a yoga retreat.

At the same time these policies banned Latvian language from public sphere, especially schools, which was a heavy blow to the new Latvian culture.

However, the majority of Latvian linguists argue that o and ō are found only in loanwords, with the Uo sound being the only native Latvian phoneme.

In accordance with law, Latvian citizens are those who had Latvian citizenship prior to June 17, 1940, and their descendants.

Latvian National Council In October 1917 centrist politicians met in Petrograd and agreed to create a united Council of all Latvian parties, refugee support organizations and soldiers committees.

Naturalization criteria include a conversational knowledge of Latvian, an oath of loyalty, renunciation of former citizenship, a 5-year residency requirement, and a knowledge of the Latvian constitution.

Pitch accent Standard Latvian and, with a few minor exceptions, all of the Latvian dialects have fixed initial stress.

The Latvian National Opera is famous not only for its operas, but for its ballet troupe as well. citation * The Latvian National Theatre was founded in 1919.

The Livonian dialect of Latvian was more affected by the Livonian language substratum than Latvian in other parts of Latvia.

But now I end up learning Latvian instead.

Latvian Paralympic Committee President Daiga Dadzīte claimed its proposal to stage the Extraordinary General Assembly had received backing from the EPC and its member nations.

Latvian Premier Backs New President Term for Putin Critic Levitsbloomberg.

Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics on a visit to Estonia.

Most townspeople who fled to Crimea continued their journey through the Russian province of Rostov-on-Don to Moscow and eventually made it to either the Latvian or Lithuanian border.

Mr. Jaishankar met Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral ties amid the Ukraine conflict.

Putin is following up his claims against Latvia with extra troop movements near the Latvian border, reminiscent of troop movements near the Ukraine border before the Russian invasion.

The letter was signed by chair of the Estonian Olympic Committee (EOK) Urmas Sõõrumaa along with his Latvian and Lithuanian counterparts Jānis Buks and Daina Gudzinevičiūte.