Ethnos and language of latgals

The article is devoted Latgale ethnic community that exists inthe eastern Baltic countries at least since the VI century AD According to one version ethnonym Latgallians became common to refer to theLatvian ethnos as a whole. Currently Latgallians officially considered as part of the Latvian people, they do not emit any official in the census,nor in other public and statistical sources. Nevertheless, in the course of events that followed after 1991, clearly date marked tendency ofmodern Latgallian to ensure its own self-ethnic status and preserve their ethnic and linguistic identity.

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