Latgalian: New efforts to keep an ancient language alive

摘要

When I first became the consul for Latvia in the US State of Minnesota, right on the border with Canada, I felt confident that I knew a lot about Latvia's regions, culture and language. Latvian is one of the EU's 23 official languages and many LSPs offer it — there is machine translation and AI software available in Latvian. But another language in Latvia, Latgalian, long thought to be dying, is seeing a rebirth and provides a case history on how other troubled languages and dialects can survive.