Latvian

latviešu valoda

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Characteristic

SVO; prepositions; noun head final; gender (masculine/feminine); no articles; case-marking (7 cases); verb affixes mark person, number; passives; tense and aspect; comparatives; 26 consonants, 11 vowels, 10 diphthongs; tonal (3 tones: even, falling, broken); stress on first syllable.

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Man arī mierīgāks prāts, zinot, ka nebraukājat apkārt dzerdami.