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Alternate Names: Latvian; "Lettish"; "Lettisch"; “Lettisch” ; “Lettish”
Spoken in: Ukraine, USA, Belarus, Sweden, Australia, Venezuela, Estonia, New Zealand, Germany, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Russia, Latvia
Number of speakers: 1,390,000 in Latvia. Over 500,000 Latgalians. Population total all countries: 1,504,880 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 150000 (UNESCO)
Code: lav
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL

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UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

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