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Clupea harengus membras: about the etymology of a certain fish name in Estonian, Latvian, and Livonian [PDF]

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2012
In this article, the names of Clupea harengus membras will be considered in Estonian, (Salaca) Livonian and Latvian (respectively räim, reńǵand reņģe ‘Baltic herring’). It will be shown that the source of all of these words is the Estonian-Swedish strämg
Udo Uibo
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Heinrich von Jannau on the Livonians and Livonian Language in Rosenplänter’s Beiträge (1828); pp. 307-309 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2009
In 1828 Heinrich Georg von Jannau published his monograph on the proto- and prelanguage of Estonians. He argued that Estonian is a daughter language of Livonian not Finnish.
Urmas Sutrop
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Unveiling Tonal Contrasts in the Baltic Region: Exploring Stød in Livonian Spontaneous Speech [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica
This paper presents findings for the tonal contrast and phonation differences between words with and without stød in Livonian spontaneous speech. Livonian differentiates between two contrastive phonological tones: the broken tone or stød and the plain ...
Tuuli Tuisk, Nicolai Pharao
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Quantity in Livonian: Preliminary Results; 29-44 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2007
The paper describes work done up to now with Livonian, the southernmost Finnic language. The study proceeds within the framework of the Finno-Ugric Prosody Project: a set of test sentences is recorded by a number of native speakers, an acoustic-phonetic ...
Ilse Lehiste, Pire Teras, Karl Pajusalu, Tuuli Tuisk   +3 more
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Livonian language texts in the Estonian Literary Museum 175th or Oskar Loorits fund

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
The article considers written Livonian language sources located in the Estonian Cultural History Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum and which linguists can use in their studies.
Renāte Blumberga
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Historical Phonology from Proto-Finnic to Proto-Livonian

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016
This article serves as an attempt to reconstruct the approximate chronological order of the major sound laws between (Late) Proto-Finnic and Proto-Livonian.
Petri Kallio
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Edela-Eesti kohad ja keel Salomo Heinrich Vestringi sõnaraamatus

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2013
Artikkel käsitleb Salomo Heinrich Vestringi eesti-saksa sõnaraamatut „Lexicon Esthonico Germanicum”, mis on koostatud 18. sajandi alguses ja ilmus trükituna esmakordselt alles 1998. aastal.
Karl Pajusalu
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The Genetic Diversity of Horse Native Breeds in Russia. [PDF]

Genes (Basel), 2023
Atroshchenko M, Dementieva N, Shcherbakov Y, Nikolaeva O, Azovtseva A, Ryabova A, Nikitkina E, Makhmutova O, Datsyshin A, Zakharov V, Zaitsev A.   +10 more
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Children of the grave: Investigating non-adult feeding practices in medieval and early modern Estonia through stable isotope analysis. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Morrone A, Tõrv M, Piombino-Mascali D, Saupe T, Sepp H, Valk H, Malve M, Oras E.   +7 more
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Delights and distractions: descriptions and vocabulary in the 1927 and 1928 Livonian ethnographic expedition materials of Ferdinand Linnus

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
Estonian researcher Ferdinand Linnus (1895–1942) was the first professional ethnologist to work with the Livonians. During three expeditions in 1927 and 1928, he spent seven months in the Livonian villages and recorded his observations and consultant ...
Renāte Blumberga
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