Marten Heiko F., Šuplinska Ilga, Lazdiņa Sanita. Latgalian: the Latgalian language in education in Latvia

Ljouwert / Leeuwarden: Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2009. — 64 p.The Latgalian language is a language originating in the region of Latgale in Eastern Latvia. It is part of the Baltic language family. Traditionally, it was argued that only two Baltic languages have survived until the present day – Latvian and Lithuanian – with Old Prussian regularly being named as a third variety which died out in the seventeenth century. According to this view, Latgalian is the most distinct dialect of Latvian. In fact, Latgalian has existed as a separate oral and written variety with a largely different linguistic and cultural development for centuries, culminating in a codified standard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.