Latvie leid

Latvie (latviešu valoda) is the offeecial state leid o Latvie. It is an aa sometimes referred tae as Lettish. Thare are aboot 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvie an aboot 150,000 abroad. The Latvian leid haes a relatively muckle nummer o non-native speakers, atypical for a sma leid. Acause o leid policy in Latvie aboot 1.9 million or 79% o the Latvian population speak Latvian.^[4] The uise o the Latvian leid in various auries o social life in Latvie is increasin.^[5]

Latvie
Lettish[1]
latviešu valoda
Pronunciation	[ˈlatviɛʃu ˈvaluɔda]
Native tae	Latvie
Region	Baltic
Ethnicity	Latvies
Native speakers	1.75 million (2015)[2]
Leid faimily	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Baltic Eastren Baltic Latvie
Writin seestem	Latin (Latvie alphabet) Latvie Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Latvie  European Union
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	lv
ISO 639-2	lav
ISO 639-3	lav – inclusive code Individual codes: lvs – Staundart Latvie leid ltg – Latgalian leid
Glottolog	latv1249[3]
Linguasphere	54-AAB-a
Uise o Latvie as the primar leid at hame in 2011 bi municipalities o Latvie
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Latvian is a Baltic leid an is maist closely relatit tae Lithuanie, although the twa are no mutually intelligible.

Latvian first appeared in Wastren prent in the mid-16t century wi the reproduction o the Lord's Prayer in Latvian in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis, in Roman script.