Talk:Latvian orthography

Proper nouns
From Norwegian (bokmål) Wikipedia:

Et karakteristisk trekk ved latvisk, som det deler med litauisk og russisk, er at de transkriberer fremmedord etter uttalen. "George Bush" blir for eksempel hetende Džorž Bušs på latvisk.

This should definitely be covered, especially since Latvian currently is the only language left (as Lithuanian and Albanian deprecated transcribing proper nouns to their orthographies) as far as I know. I could start off figuring out how to call transcription withing an alphabet... Okyea 10:20, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Whoops I don't know what I'm talking about - the Albanian language proper noun transcription turns out to be a phonetic transcription (sq:Shqiptimi - meaning pronunciation) pretty much like IPA. Okyea 10:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Letter O
Actually there are 4 different pronounciations:
 * 1 Dipthong ua in words ola(egg), roka(hand), Loja, skola, koks, loks, logs, ko?, iedot...
 * 2. u'o/u'ō sound. The only example I know is livonian placename Kolka, which actually pronounces like Ku'olka(if you listen to livonian video samples, then it is even pronounced as Ku'ōlka). That might be dipthong, but to my ear - there is some change in accent.
 * 3. Short o in borrowed or foreign words: Obama, objekts, skočš,
 * 4. long ō in borrowed or foreign words: opera(ōpera), radio(rādiō), mols(mōls), kola(kōla).

Pronounciations 2,3,4 are only in borrowed words. If dialects uses these sounds, then because of influences from neighbours - e.g. before influences they pronounced like rest of latvians. Pronounciations with [ua] seems the only native and most used sound - some words which have been borrowed were either adopted to this sound(like skola from swedish) or they were sounding with ua at that time(in islandic this words still sounds with ua: šk[ua]la) and didn't need any sound changes. 2.121.61.15 (talk) 20:53, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Latvian orthography. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20130927204933/http://archive.is/20120524124909/http://politika.lv/ to http://archive.is/20120524124909/http://politika.lv/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 04:00, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Computer encoding section
This section talks about "Pokémonism" and has a citation needed from Oct. 2007. The statement needing a citation is not incorrect — I found some ancient Latvian blogs/forum posts that seemed to use the Pokémonism method and/or mention it using that name  , but I couldn't find anything that could be considered a better source than those, although somebody who understands Latvian may have better luck. Is it okay to cite the blogs in this case, or should the template remain? Snorepion (talk) 23:55, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Pronunciation of e/ē
In Sound–spelling correspondences section it's said that E can represent either [ɛ] or [æ] but later in the table it says it represents either [e] or [æ]. Seems like an inconsistency.