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North Wind and the Sun in Latvian.
Latvian is an Eastern Baltic Language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the official language in Latvia and it is spoken by 1.7 million native speakers. It is most closely related to Lithuanian.
• Recording.
Latvian
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The recording date is unknown.
• References.
Balode, Laimute and Holvoet, Axel. 2001. The Lithuanian language and its dialects. In Dahl, Östen and Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (eds.), Past and Present, 41-79. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Brenzinger, I. (1973). Notes on the Phonetics of Latvian. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, vol. 3/1, pp. 36-39.
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