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Declension Classes in Livonian – a Language-User Abstractive Approach; pp. 1-21 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2019 This paper aims to present an abstractive study of Livonian declension classes which lends support to the pedagogical analyses offered in Viitso, Ernštreits 2012. In this study I identify and discuss additional inflexional patterns in the language which
Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth
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Heinrich von Jannau on the Livonians and Livonian Language in Rosenplänter’s Beiträge (1828); pp. 307-309 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2009 In 1828 Heinrich Georg von Jannau published his monograph on the proto- and prelanguage of Estonians. He argued that Estonian is a daughter language of Livonian not Finnish.
Urmas Sutrop
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Language resources and tools for Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 This article describes linguistic collections of Livonian, development of digital resources, and their usage. The main motivation is to ensure the accessibility of Livonian intangible cultural heritage and linguistic materials for the Livonian and ...
Valts Ernštreits +4 more
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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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Livonian – the most endangered language in Europe?
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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Livonian social networks and language shift
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 This article presents a study of Livonian social networks in the beginning of the 20th century during a time of language shift. In this study, I examine whether the Livonian communities were experiencing a language shift irrespective of the population ...
Patrick O’Rourke
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Livonian language texts in the Estonian Literary Museum 175th or Oskar Loorits fund
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The article considers written Livonian language sources located in the Estonian Cultural History Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum and which linguists can use in their studies.
Renāte Blumberga
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Revitalizing a community language: Livonian and other community languages
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 The present paper compares efforts to revive the spoken use of two European languages which have fallen into disuse: Cornish, spoken in the southwest of England, and Livonian in Latvia.
Christopher Moseley
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Oskar Looritsa liivi folkloori kogu [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2022 The Estonian Folklore Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum hold a valuable collection of Livonian ethnography and folklore – Oskar Loorits’ collection of Livonian folklore.
Tuuli Tuisk
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Lutsi speakers and rememberers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 This article describes the language of the last speakers of Lutsi as well as their family background and the sources of their language knowledge, in order to show the paths by which Lutsi language knowledge – even if only of a fragmentary sort – has ...
Uldis Balodis
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