When faced with the Latvian system of rendering personal names, many experience an unexpected and even absurd reality: a family that should theoretically share one surname, has something different written on the documents for each person, reported the Latvian Radio program "Global Latvian. 21st Century".
The confusion usually stems from the fact that foreign names are transcribed into Latvian on a broadly phonetic basis, and while Latvian uses the Latin alphabet, its pronunciation...