It's considered a dialect of Latvian by the Ethnologue.
But they're known to have very unreliable information in many cases. They even list Yinglish as a language when it's not even a dialect or sociolect, merely a group of code-switching phenomena (mostly. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinglish ), while they neglect to even mention Singlish, the creole language spoken natively by most young Singaporeans.
Mark
On 17/10/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The code bat is a "collective code" for Baltic (other). Latgalian however is considered a dialect of Latvian and therefore it is not "other".
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lav http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=bat Thanks, GerardM
On 10/17/06, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/17/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, According to Ethnologue Latgalian is a dialect of Latvian. From my point
of
view, there is not even a proposed code to be used for your proposed Wikipedia that would be acceptable. Acceptable would be something like "lv-latg" or "lav-latg" ..
There's a test wiki at http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/ltg The code bat-ltv has been suggested.
Angela
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