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Livonian

2022
Abstract Livonian is an acutely endangered Finnic minority language spoken in Latvia. The last traditional Livonian communities on the Courland peninsula were dispersed by World War II and Sovietization. The last generation of traditional speakers is now passing away, while activists are struggling to revitalize the language.
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Livonian Hospitality

Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 2020
The conquest and colonisation of the northeastern Baltic Rim in the 13th century durably shaped religious and ethnic identities of and relations between the native population and the arriving crusa ...
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Fragments from the book about the Narva trade Nowgorodfahrer from Lübeck: Fees on goods exported from Narva during the Livonian War

Петербургский исторический журнал
The article under scrutiny herein examines fragments from a handwritten merchant’s book stored in the archive of the Nowgorodfahrer merchant association, which is one of the funds of the Archive of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
A. V. Ushakov
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Conspicuous consumption in a military camp: the expenditures of Albrycht Władysław Radziwiłł in the 1609 Livonian campaign

Seventeenth century
A distinctive feature of European warfare in the early modern period was that commanders not only led troops into battle, but also organised and financed their own units.
Karol Żojdź
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Colonisation, Decline and Loss: Making Livonian Time in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Time & Society
This article analyses how the historical time of the region of Livonia was made by Baltic-German scholars in Romanov Russia in the nineteenth century. It is done by bringing the history of provincial historiography into current discussions of scientific ...
Emma Hagström Molin
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References to Children in Henry’s Livonian Chronicle

Mirator
In his Chronicon Livoniae, Henry of Livonia frequently mentions the presence of Estonian and Latvian children defeated by the crusaders. Typical of crusader chronicles, his references to children are brief and sporadic, often appearing as part of lists ...
Sini Kangas
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Medieval Livonian numismatics

Journal of Baltic Studies, 1993
(1993). Medieval Livonian numismatics. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 37-52.
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Talkative Head Reliquaries in the Nordic and Livonian Middle Ages

Nordic Review of Iconography
Reliquaries shaped as heads or hands were called “speaking reliquaries” for several decades since the term – in German, redende Reliquiare – was coined by Joseph Braun in his book Die Reliquiare des Christlichen Kultes und ihre Entwicklung (1940).
Sofia Lahti
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Time-series f0 analysis of contrastive tones: the case of Livonian natural speech

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
Livonian is a Finnic language that differentiates between two contrastive phonological word tones: the broken tone and the plain tone. The broken tone is similar to the Danish stød in some respects and is said to be part of the word tone systems of the ...
T. Tuisk, N. Pharao
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Negation in Livonian

2015
The paper gives an overview of negation in Livonian. The study is based on fieldwork data and previous research. Livonian has negation markers of three types: (1) auxiliaries, äb in the indicative and conditional present, iz in the indicative past, and alā in the imperative and the jussive; (2) particle mittõ is used to reinforce negation and to mark ...
Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu, Tiit-Rein Viitso   +2 more
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