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Machine Translation for Livonian: Catering to 20 Speakers
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 Livonian is one of the most endangered languages in Europe with just a tiny handful of speakers and virtually no publicly available corpora. In this paper we tackle the task of developing neural machine translation (NMT) between Livonian and English ...
Matīss Rikters +4 more
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A journey of discovery through the Livonian world: the scholarly work of Tiit-Rein Viitso
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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Insight into the city/town names of Latvia [PDF]
, 2017 The origin of the place names is a research topic for linguists (or onomasticians) and geographers, but since ancient times a wide range of people have also been interested in the subject. As Latvia is the closest neighbour to both Lithuania and Estonia,
Balode, Laimute
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Yiddish varieties in the Livonian contact area
Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2022 The aim of this article is to discuss the Yiddish varieties of Courland and Estonia in the general context of the co-territorial languages: Baltic German, Latvian, Livonian, and Estonian.
A. Verschik
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Medieval Livonian County Metsepole and the Historical and Linguistic Border between Livonians and Estonians; pp. 253-268 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2009 The article focuses on the issue of the northern border of Metsepole in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia and in two earlier treaties from the 13th century.
Urmas Sutrop, Karl Pajusalu
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Liivimaa Üldkasulik ja Ökonoomiline Sotsieteet kui innovaatiline ühistegevusorganisatsioon [PDF]
, 2013 The Livonian Society as an Innovative CooperativeOrganisationThe Livonian Public Welfare and Economic Society evolved into a hotbed of innovative cooperative relationships between the cultural and political powers developing the territories of what are ...
Kala, Hillar
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Alexander Theodor von Middendorff – doctor, explorer and promoter of cattle-breeding [PDF]
, 2016 Alexander Theodor von Middendorff is considered one of the most pioneering scientists. As a talented researcher, Alexander Theodor von Middendorff made his contribution to the development of geography, hydrology, climatology, botany, glaciology, zoology,
Toomsalu, Maie
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Baltic Germans & Comparative Development [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, we explore the long-run effects of cultural and imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Drawing evidence from the 1897 population census in the Russian Empire, we find that localities with a higher share of German historical population ...
Grigoriadis, Theocharis, Vitola, Alise
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Terminus, 2022 Academiae voluntas mihi potior est… Letters by the Livonian humanist and lawyer David Hilchen to the professors of the Academy of Zamość1603–1609 This paper is an annotated edition of 44 letters written by humanist lawyer David Hilchen from Livonia ...
Kristi Viiding
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The role of Livonian in Latvia from a sociolinguistic perspective
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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