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Holocene Land‐Use and Climate Forcing of Ombrotrophic Peatland Dynamics in Northwest Estonia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Volume 130, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract We present a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy record from Mustjärve bog, northwest Estonia, covering the past ∼2,500 years. By integrating paleoecological, historical, and climate data, we evaluate how climate and land use shaped peatland hydrology, vegetation, and carbon dynamics.
Harry Roberts, Luke Andrews, Michał Słowiński, Katarzyna Marcisz, Piotr Kołaczek, Leeli Amon, Siim Veski, Normunds Stivrins, Atko Heinsalu, Mariusz Lamentowicz   +9 more
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Itämerensuomalaisten kielten keskinäistä ymmärrettävyyttä mittaavan kokeen suunnittelu, toteutus ja uutuusarvot

Lähivõrdlusi
Itämerensuomalaisten kielten keskinäisen ymmärrettävyyden tutkimus on osoittanut, että kielten äidinkieliset puhujat luottavat itämerensuomalaisten kielten samankaltaisuuteen pyrkiessään ymmärtämään sukukieltä.
Aleksi Palokangas
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Livonian Canons and Challenge of the Reformation [PDF]

, 2019
The article examines five Livonian cathedral chapters — Riga, Dorpat, Osilia, Curonia and Reval — during the Reformation era (1522–1566): from the beginning of Livonian Reformation to the dissolution of the Chapter of Riga.
Maasing, Madis
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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
wiley   +1 more source

The l-cases in Courland Livonian [PDF]

, 2022
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.
Rogier Blokland, Nobufumi Inaba
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The Livonian language as used in letters in the 1930s: a view into the correspondence of the editors of “Līvli”

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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Reexamining Latvian lake names ending in -eris, -ēris, and -ieris [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica
This article discusses Latvian lake names ending in -eris, -ēris, and -ieris as names of possible Finnic origin. The article is an inventory of limnonyms — names of lakes and ponds — ending in -eris, -ēris, and -ieris, i.e.
Anta Trumpa, Valts Ernštreits
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Development of Livonian literary language [PDF]

, 2010
Väitekiri „Liivi kirjakeele kujunemine“ jälgib liivi kirjakeele arenemist alates esimeste liivikeelsete raamatute ilmumisest kuni viimaste katkematut kirjakeele traditsiooni jätkanud liivikeelsete allikateni. Ajaliselt hõlmab see ajavahemikku alates 1863.
Ernštreits, Valts
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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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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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