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<small>[[Krišjānis Barons]]{{·}}[[Krišjānis Valdemārs]]{{·}}[[Andrejs Pumpurs]]{{·}}[[Oskars Kalpaks]]{{·}}[[Jānis Čakste]]{{·}}[[Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics]]{{·}}[[Kārlis Ulmanis]]</small> |
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|pop2 = 30,000 - 200,000<ref>[http://latvianabroad.blogspot.com/2007/09/latvians-in-ireland-and-uk-numbers-part.html Estimates vary significantly for the population of Latvian britons]</ref> |
|pop2 = 30,000 - 200,000<ref>[http://latvianabroad.blogspot.com/2007/09/latvians-in-ireland-and-uk-numbers-part.html Estimates vary significantly for the population of Latvian britons]</ref> |
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Krišjānis Barons · Krišjānis Valdemārs · Andrejs Pumpurs · Oskars Kalpaks · Jānis Čakste · Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics · Kārlis Ulmanis | |
Regions with significant populations | |
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Latvia | 1,438,682 [1] (2010) |
Great Britain | 30,000 - 200,000[2] |
United States | 94,341 [1] |
Russia | 28,520 [2]; [3]; [4] |
Canada | 37,000 [5] |
Brazil | 25,000 [6] |
New Zealand | 20,000 [7] |
Australia | 18,938 [8] |
Ireland | 14,000 [9] |
Germany | 9,100 [10] |
Ukraine | 5,079 [11] |
Sweden | 4,000 lt:Latviai |
Lithuania | 3,000 [12] |
Norway | 2,856 [13] |
Estonia | 2,300 [14] |
Belarus | 2,239 [15] |
Kazakhstan | 1,900 [16] |
Uzbekistan | 1,600 [17] |
Spain | 1,440 [18] |
France | 956 [19] |
Switzerland | 736 [20] |
Belgium | 679 [21] |
Turkmenistan | 500 [22] |
Venezuela | 400 lt:Latviai |
Moldova | 400 [23] |
Georgia | 200 lt:Latviai |
Argentina | 200 lt:Latviai |
Chile | 100 lt:Latviai |
Religion | |
Christian(divided among Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism and large non-religious population, Dievturi minority. | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Lithuanians, Kursenieki, Latgalians, Semigallians, Selians |
Latvians or Letts (Template:Lang-lv; Livonian: laett) are the indigenous Baltic people of Latvia.
History
Latvians occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia. A Finnic-speaking tribe known as the Livs settled among the Latvians and modulated the name to "Latvis," meaning "forest-clearers," which is how medieval German settlers also referred to these peoples. The German colonizers changed this name to "Lette" and called their initially small colony Livland. The Latin form, Livonia, gradually referred to the whole territory of the modern-day Latvia as well as southern Estonia, which had fallen under German dominion. Latvians and Lithuanians are the only surviving members of the Baltic peoples and Baltic languages of the Indo-European family.
Genetics
Latvians show the characteristic R1a genes of the paternal ancestorship at 39.5%. Such large frequencies of R1a have been found only in East Europe and India.[3]
Latvians look like and consider themselves Nordics, evidenced through the strong cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Germanic and Scandinavian colonization and settlement. Eastern Latvia (Latgale), however, retains a strong Polish and Russian cultural and linguistic influence. This highly literate society places strong emphasis upon education, which is free and compulsory until age 18. Average school expectancy for 5-year-olds (from pre-primary to higher education) was 17,8 in 2006[4]. Most of the religious Latvians belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church but Eastern Latvia (Latgale) is predominantly Roman Catholic. In the late 18th century, a small but vibrant Herrnhutist movement played a significant part in the development of Latvian literary culture, before it was absorbed in to the mainstream Lutheran denomination.
The national language of the Latvian people is Latvian.
References
- ^ ru:Латвия
- ^ Estimates vary significantly for the population of Latvian britons
- ^ Rosser et al. (2000)
- ^ Eurydice network (16/07/2009). "Key Data on Education 2009: a view on Europe's educational systems" (PDF). Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
(EACEA P9 Eurydice). p. 3. Retrieved December 26, 2009.
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