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LähivõrdlusiItämerensuomalaisten kielten keskinäisen ymmärrettävyyden tutkimus on osoittanut, että kielten äidinkieliset puhujat luottavat itämerensuomalaisten kielten samankaltaisuuteen pyrkiessään ymmärtämään sukukieltä.
Aleksi Palokangas
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 Using vocabulary examples from the letters of the only two editors of the 1930s Livonian language newspaper “Līvli”, this article shows that it is possible to find new words in sources which have been little utilized up until now in linguistic studies ...
Renāte Blumberga
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A century of Livonian studies at the University of Tartu
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 The significance of the Livonian language and culture to Estonians is greater than mere historical closeness. The discipline of Livonian studies has been a part of Estonian national self-definition.
Tuuli Tuisk, Karl Pajusalu
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The Authority of Miracles: Caesarius of Heisterbach and the Livonian Crusade
, 2007 The Dialogus miraculorum of Caesarius of Heisterbach as a Source for the Livonian ...
Barbara Bombi, Bombi, Barbara
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The l-cases in Courland Livonian [PDF]
, 2018 Courland Livonian is the only Finnic language where the habitive expressions of giving, taking, and having do not use the so-called l-cases, but instead the dative, the elative or a postposition. As the l-cases mostly only occur in a number of fossilised
Blokland, Rogier +3 more
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The Role of Duration Ratios and Fundamental Frequency in Spontaneous Livonian; pp. 241-252 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2009 The article focuses on the study of Livonian word prosody. The paper deals with duration ratios and fundamental frequency contours in Livonian. An acoustic-phonetic analysis of the recordings of spontaneous speech by 8 speakers was carried out.
Tuuli Tuisk, Pire Teras
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Oskar Loorits ja liivlased [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2004 Oskar Loorits' expedition to the Livonians began in June 1920 in the Luzhnas village. Loorits was well-liked among the Livonians, and was even given nicknames - Valdapää (Livonian for `white head') and Nuorizand (`the young master').
Renate Blumberga
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Livonian in the 21st century [PDF]
, 2014 Today there are about 40 people worldwide who can communicate (level B1 or higher skills according to Europass) in Livonian, of whom only a half is of Livonian origin and only one is a native speaker.
Ernštreits, Valts
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Unveiling Tonal Contrasts in the Baltic Region: Exploring Stød in Livonian Spontaneous Speech [PDF]
Linguistica UralicaThis 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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