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Alphabet and Character Frequency: Latvian (Latviešu)

On this page you will find tables containing the frequencies of letters in the Latvian language as well as information on the Latvian alphabet (the letters used in the Latvian language).

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Letter Frequencies of the language Latvian

Below you can see a table showing the frequencies of letters, as they occur in the Latvian language. This list was created with the character counter, which is integrated in the WordCreator. Basis of this list was a Latvian text with 2,005,585 characters (274,484 words), 1,652,071 characters were used for the counting. The text consists of a good mix of different literary genres. Of course, if another text was used as a basis, the result would be slightly different.

The first list is sorted alphabetically according to the letters, the second list by the frequencies of the letters. Accordingly, the letters A, I and S are the most frequent letters in the Latvian language.

LetterFrequency
A11.78 %
Ā4.09 %
B1.67 %
C1.19 %
Č0.08 %
D3.03 %
E6.15 %
Ē1.66 %
F0.33 %
G1.67 %
Ģ0.16 %
H0.22 %
I9.33 %
Ī1.92 %
J2.55 %
K3.92 %
Ķ0.14 %
L3.44 %
Ļ0.40 %
M3.54 %
N4.30 %
Ņ0.38 %
O3.85 %
P2.89 %
R5.58 %
S8.06 %
Š0.95 %
T6.04 %
U5.16 %
Ū0.40 %
V2.84 %
Z1.82 %
Ž0.21 %
LetterFrequency
A11.78 %
I9.33 %
S8.06 %
E6.15 %
T6.04 %
R5.58 %
U5.16 %
N4.30 %
Ā4.09 %
K3.92 %
O3.85 %
M3.54 %
L3.44 %
D3.03 %
P2.89 %
V2.84 %
J2.55 %
Ī1.92 %
Z1.82 %
B1.67 %
G1.67 %
Ē1.66 %
C1.19 %
Š0.95 %
Ļ0.40 %
Ū0.40 %
Ņ0.38 %
F0.33 %
H0.22 %
Ž0.21 %
Ģ0.16 %
Ķ0.14 %
Č0.08 %
 

Lists of Latvian syllable frequencies can be found here.

Usage Note

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The Latvian Alphabet

Here you can see all letters that occur in the Latvian alphabet. The headings of each column are showing all basic letters of the Latin alphabet in bold. In the first row of the table, there are the letters from the Latin alphabet, which are also used in Latvian. Underneath, all in Latvian occurring forms derived from the basic Latin letters are listed.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP RSTUV   Z
Ā Č Ē Ģ Ī ĶĻ Ņ    Š Ū    Ž

The Latvian alphabet knows 33 letters. It contains of 22 basic letters of the Latin alphabet (all letters except Q, W, X and Y) and is supplemented by the 11 letters Ā, Č, Ē, Ģ, Ī, Ķ, Ļ, Ņ, Š, Ū and Ž.

Vocals with a macron (Ā, Ē, Ī and Ū) are pronounced long, the same vocals without macron (A, E, I and U) are short. The pronunciation of the other diacritics is as follows: Č - TSCH, Ģ - DJ, Ķ - TJ, Ļ - LJ, Ņ - NJ, Š - SCH and Ž - DSCH.