Getting To Know Today's Latvia

STAY ON A FARM FOR A HOLIDAY

All over Latvia farms and small houses now offer bed and breakfast, usually staying with the owners. Judging from Visitors' Book comments, both the friendliness and the food are highly valued by guests. Furthermore you gain a real insight into Latvian life this way.

THE LATVIAN LANGUAGE

Latvia's language belongs to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European languages, related in the region today only to Lithuanian and also ancestrally to sanskrit. It is based on the Latin alphabet and modern Latvian probably derives from the dialect of the Latgalians. Since the National Awakening movement of the 1860s Latvian intellectuals have refined it. Giving the language a power and grace of its own, of which today's writers make the most of.

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