Moseley Christopher. Colloquial Latvian. The Complete Course for Beginners

Издательство: Routledge
Год: 1996
Количество страниц: 131
ISBN: 0-415-11797-6This course aims to provide a working knowledge of the contemporary Latvian language. Latvian is one of the two surviving members of the Baltic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Its closest relative is Lithuanian, the language of Latvia's southern neighbour.
anguage in this group to die out was Old Prussian, which was defunct by the end of the seventeenth century. The Republic of Latvia re-emerged as a sovereign nation as recently as 1991; the three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were the first to declare their independence from the Soviet Union. Like its northern and southern neighbours, Latvia had enjoyed a period of independence earlier this century, from 1918 to 1940, between the two world wars, a period which saw a rapid growth in the country's prosperity to a position to which it is only now returning.