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Dictionary of language and linguistics 664JournalsGlottaLatinitasProbusclassification of languages, Indo-European, Romance languagesLatin-FaliscanItalicLatvianBaltic language with approx. 1.5 million speakers in Latvia. Religious literature dates tothe Reformation, secular literature exists since the eighteenth century. The orthography isbased on the Latin alphabet with diacritic marks, including , , , . Stress onthe first syllable. Long and short vowels with distinctive intonation (including glottalnarrowing) even after the accented syllable. Complex morphology. No distinctionbetween singular and plural in the third person verb forms, as in Lithuanian.ReferencesEndzelīns, J. 1951. Latviėšu valodas gramatika. Riga.——1922. Lettische Grammatik. Riga.Eiche, A. 1983. Latvian declinable and indeclinable participles: their syntactic function, frequencyand modality. Stockholm.Fennel, T.G. and H.Gelsen. 1980. A grammar of modern Latvian. The Hague.Mülenbachs, K. 1923–1932. Latviešu valodas vār . Redigējis, papildinājis, turpinājisJ.Endzelīns. 4 vols. Riga (Repr. Chicago 1953). Vols. 5 and 6: J.Endzelīns and E.Hauzenberga.1934–46. Papildinājumi un labojumi K. Latviešu valodas vārdnīcai. Riga (Repr.Chicago 1956).Mūsdienu latviešu literārās valodas gramatika. 1959/62. 2 vols. Riga., V. 1977. The standardization process in Latvian: sixteenth century to the present.Stockholm.DictionariesLatviešu literās valodas vārdnīca. 1972. Vol. 6 1986. Riga.Latviešu valodas vārdnīca. 1987. Riga.Metuzāle-Kangere, B. 1985. A derivational dictionary of Latvian. Latviešu valodas atvasiknājumuvārdnīca. Hamburg.