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Corpus of Early Written Latvian Texts

The historical corpus consists of both printed sources and manuscript transcripts included in toto from the 16th–18th cc., facilitating studies in the history of the Latvian language, its lexis, morphology, and syntax. The corpus serves as the basis of the ‘Historical Dictionary of Latvian (16th-17th cc.)’. To provide advanced search possibilities, texts (mainly word roots) have been normalised into conventional modern spelling. ‘Guidelines on the normalisation of early Latvian texts (16th–18th cc.) into modern spelling’ present the main principles.