diff --git a/whisperx/alignment.py b/whisperx/alignment.py
index 0c4e2b0..3b2fdae 100644
--- a/whisperx/alignment.py
+++ b/whisperx/alignment.py
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_HF = {
     "eu": "stefan-it/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-basque",
     "gl": "ifrz/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-galician",
     "ka": "xsway/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-georgian",
+    "lv": "jimregan/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-latvian-cv",
 }
 
 
diff --git a/whisperx/utils.py b/whisperx/utils.py
index dfe3cf2..4ccd77c 100644
--- a/whisperx/utils.py
+++ b/whisperx/utils.py
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ LANGUAGES = {
     "jw": "javanese",
     "su": "sundanese",
     "yue": "cantonese",
+    "lv": "latvian",
 }
 
 # language code lookup by name, with a few language aliases