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Old Latvian
Family: Baltic
Region: Baltic region
Time: 16th century C.E.
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | |
| Voiceless stop | p | t | k kʲ | |
| Voiced stop | b | d | g gʲ | |
| Voiceless affricate | ts | tʃ | ||
| Voiced affricate | dz | dʒ | ||
| Fricative | v | s z | ʃ ʒ | |
| Nasal | m | n nʲ | ||
| Lateral | l lʲ | |||
| Trill | r | |||
| Approximant | j |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
| High | i iː | u uː | |
| Low-mid | ɛ ɛː | ||
| Low | æ æː | a aː |
Diphthongs
ie, uo
Notes
- Mathiassen (1977) states that what are reported here as /kʲ/ and /gʲ/ (in modern Latvian writing <ķ> and <ğ>) are instead palatalized dental /tʲ/ and /dʲ/.
Bibliography
Dini, Pietro Umberto. 1997. Le lingue baltiche. Firenze: La Nuova Italia.
Mathiassen, Terje. 1997. A Short Grammar of Latvian. Columbus: Slavica Publishers.
Author
Adriano Cerri