[Gocamino] Letonia

[Rosina]

Here is an informative and very interesting message received from a list-member.



hi rosina?
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letonia is latvian. 'the letts' , lituania i think would be lithuanian as you mentioned. lithuania & latvia are very closely related. (linguistically cousins/sisters). hence the similarity in translation.?
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my mother is from latvia and i have noticed that french & spanish & maybe german also call us 'letts' or something similar. i'm not sure which language group (romance, germanic, anglo) dubbed us 'letts' but it seems to refer to us latvians.?
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tinuviel?
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On Sep 6, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Rosina wrote:?
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> Hi Richard,?
> It could be since there?are 30 pilgrims from, in Spanish, "Lituania" > ?which is moe likely to be?Lithuania.? The 13 are listed as being > from, in Spanish, "Letonia". Neither of the two Spanish dictionaries > that I have contains the word.... so I don't know.?
> -Maybe someone in these list-servs knows?-?
> Hugs!?
> Rosina?
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> To: Rosina <blaroli at aol.com>?
> Sent: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 4:57 pm?