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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 5991335, member: 2844&quot;]It is not Germanic either.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Latvian is a Baltic language, more precisely East Baltic. As such it is more closely related to Slavic languages (common Balto-Slavic roots), than to other Indo-European languages.</p><p>There was a strong German cultural influence through Lutheran ministers (priests), which could possibly account for the use of Fraktur print on the block.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the use of Fraktur in Latvia:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In the Latvian variant of Fraktur, used mainly until the 1920s,...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;a wide variety of Fraktur fonts were carved and became common in the German-speaking world and areas under German influence (Scandinavia, Estonia, Latvia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe" rel="nofollow">Central Europe</a>).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Typesetting in Fraktur was still very common in the early 20th century in all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" rel="nofollow">German-speaking</a> countries and areas, as well as in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" rel="nofollow">Norway</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia" rel="nofollow">Estonia</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia" rel="nofollow">Latvia</a>,....&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So according to the article, it was mainly used until the 1920s. &#039;Mainly&#039; could mean that there could have been Fraktur script users a few years later. But it could indicate an approximate end date for the block.</p><p><br /></p><p>Possibly a header for publications?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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