UL Latvian Language Institute

Institute of the Latvian Language of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia is the only research institution in the world that systematically studies the Latvian language. It is a continuation of the traditions of the Latvian Language Repository, founded in 1935, and all the most prominent Latvian linguists have worked in it during its almost hundred years of existence. The institute carries out research activities in various fields of Latvian linguistics - dialectology and areal linguistics, onomastics, language history, grammar, phonetics and phonology, lexicology and lexicography, sociolinguistics, terminology, language culture, so it covers all areas important for language research, from sound to sentence and for the text. The institute prepares monographs, encyclopedias, digital dictionaries, collections of articles and magazines on various linguistic issues, it organizes conferences, seminars and public events, as well as helps to preserve the cultural and academic heritage by publishing selections of the works of prominent Latvian linguists, organizing public language cleanups. The Institute's research and work in collecting and describing the language is the basis of all Latvian electronic dictionaries and digital thesaurus.