Editing Latvian language (section)

=== Central dialect ===
The Central dialect spoken in central and Southwestern Latvia is the basis of standard Latvian. The dialect is divided into the Vidzeme variety, the Curonic variety and the Semigallic variety. The Vidzeme variety and the Semigallic variety are closer to each other than to the Curonic variety, which is more archaic than the other two. There are three syllable intonations in some parts of Vidzeme variety of the Central dialect, extended, broken and falling. The Curonic and Semigallic varieties have two syllable intonations, extended and broken, but some parts of the Vidzeme variety have extended and falling intonations. In the Curonic variety, ''ŗ'' is still used. The [[Kursenieki language]], a historic variety of Latvian, which used to be spoken along [[Curonian Spit]], is closely related to the varieties of the Central dialect spoken in [[Courland]].