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Latvian
Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.
Pronunciation
Letter
Ū (upper case, lower case ū)
- The thirtieth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called garais u and written in the Latin script.
See also
- Letters of the Latvian alphabet:
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
Letter
Ū (lower case ū)
- The twenty-ninth letter of the Lithuanian alphabet, called u ilgoji and written in the Latin script.