PROJECT
The Latvian Language in Time, Space and Society
Project title: The Latvian Language in Time, Space and Society
Project's No: VPP-IZM-Letonika-2025/1-0012
Project acronym: LaTs
Project’s partners: University of Latvia (UL), Riga Technical university (RTU)
Funded by: Latvian Science Council, Fundamental and Applied Research Projects
Project's duration: December 22, 2025 – December 21, 2028
Project's total budget: 1 320 600,00 EUR, VUAS: 25 482 EUR
Project goal: is to strengthen and expand knowledge of Latvian as a dynamic system shaped by its historical development, regional and social diversity, functional variety, and multilingual environment in Latvia and beyond, while simultaneously developing Latvian as a cornerstone of national identity and state security. To achieve this goal, the Latvian language will be studied in six dimensions: sociolinguistics, terminology and translation studies, dialectology and the study of the Latgalian written language, onomastics, the history of the Latvian language, and language acquisition. The project consists of six interrelated sub-projects that together correspond to the research tasks defined in sub-paragraph 6.1.1 of the Cabinet Order No. 559 of 12 September 2025. All sub-projects will contribute to the horizontal objectives of the programme: the development of human capital through student involvement; the expansion of the knowledge base in linguistics and related disciplines through peer-reviewed publications and monographs; the improvement of digital resources and tools by enhancing open-access linguistic databases and corpora; contributions to education and language policy development; as well as the dissemination of research results and the provision of recommendations for policymakers.
Contacts:
Project scientific head (VUAS) – Asoc.prof. Jānis Veckrācis,
janis.veckracis@venta.lv
