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A journey of discovery through the Livonian world: the scholarly work of Tiit-Rein Viitso [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 This article presents a survey of Tiit-Rein Viitso’s studies on Livonian. Viitso has studied a variety of aspects of this southernmost Finnic language.
Tuuli Tuisk, Karl Pajusalu
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Loanword strata in Livonian [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The article deals with loanword strata in Livonian. The first part of the article compares loanword strata in Courland Livonian to those of Salaca Livonian with regard to source language (Middle Low German, Latvian, High German, and Russian) and parts of
Eberhard Winkler
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The role of Livonian in Latvia from a sociolinguistic perspective [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 This article examines the role of Livonian in present-day Latvia and describes the Livonian language situation in the context of Latvia’s language situation and current sociolinguistic issues.
Ina Druviete, Gunta Kļava
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Livonian in recent years [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 This article discusses developments affecting Livonian during the last decade. It describes actions to promote Livonian during this period, for example, the International Year of Livonian Language and Culture and also discusses the status of Livonian in ...
Valts Ernštreits
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Survey of research on Livonian prosody [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The aim of the article is to give an overview of previous studies concerning Livonian prosody. In separate subsections a characterization of earlier treatments of the Livonian quantity and tone system will be provided. The Livonian prosodic system became
Tuuli Tuisk
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Verbiprefiksid Salatsi liivi keeles [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 Artikkel käsitleb Salatsi liivi verbiprefiksite esinemist Johann Andreas Sjögreni materjalide põhjal. Arvestades Kuramaa liivi vastavaid uurimusi ja asjaolu, et Sjögreni ajal oli Salatsi liivi juba väljasurev keel, oleks ootuspärane verbiprefiksite ...
Eberhard Winkler
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Main features of the Livonian sound system and pronunciation [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 The aim of this article is to give an overview of the Livonian sound system and pronunciation. Regarding Livonian dialectal variation, the main difference is between East and West Livonian, while Central Livonian forms a transition area. The basis of the
Tuuli Tuisk
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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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Compound formation principles in Livonian [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 Compounding is one of the most productive types of Livonian word formation. Compounds typically are synthetic and contain one or more modifiers, which follow the head of the compound. Most compound nouns have a singular genitive modifier.
Valts Ernštreits
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Livonian – the most endangered language in Europe? [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 Drawing on my experience as General Editor of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, as well as my own research interest in the Livonian language, the situation of Livonian is here compared with that of some other threatened languages of ...
Christopher Moseley
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