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The Latvian alphabet lacks Q (kū), W (dubultvē), X (iks) and Y (igrek). These letters are not used in Latvian for writing foreign personal and geographical names; instead they are adapted to Latvian phonology, orthography, and morphology, e. g. Džordžs Volkers Bušs (George Walker Bush). However, these four letters can be used in ...
Latvian roots may alternate between [v] and [u] depending on whether the following segment is a vowel or a consonant. For example, the root Dauga v - (' Daugava River ') in the nominative case is [dauɡa v ə] , but is pronounced [dauɡa u pils] in the city name Daugavpils .
Latvian (endonym: latviešu valoda, pronounced [ˈlatviɛʃu ˈvaluɔda]), [4] also known as Lettish, [5] is an East Baltic language belonging to the Indo-European language family.
Ģ, ģ (g-cedilla) is the 11th letter of the Latvian alphabet. [1] In Latvian, it has the IPA value /ɟ/, similar to the pronunciation of the g in "argue". In ISO 9, Ģ is the official Latin transliteration of the Cyrillic letter Ӷ.
The table below shows the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Latvian language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
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The alphabet is as follows. [1] It uses international w for v.All Latvian print diacritics are indicated by dot 6 in Latvian Braille; the international forms of u, v, and z have been abandoned to allow this to be a regular rule (compared to say Lithuanian Braille, which has a separate convention for such letters).
The symbol originates with the 15th-century Czech alphabet that was introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus. [1] [2] From there, it was first adopted into the Croatian alphabet by Ljudevit Gaj in 1830 to represent the same sound, [3] and from there on into other orthographies, such as Latvian, [4] Lithuanian, [5] Slovak, [6] Slovene, Karelian, Sami, Veps and Sorbian.