preferred to the German and Swedish in the 16th century.

In the Latvian variant of Fraktur, used mainly until the 1920s, there are additional characters used to denote Latvian letters with diacritical marks. Stroked letters , , , , are used for palatalized consonants (, , , , ), stroked variants of and distinguish voiced and unvoiced sibilants or affricates ( for voiced [z], for unvoiced [s], [z] / [s], [dz] /