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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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Chasing Livonian heritage on the Livonian Coast [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 In 2018, the Livonian cultural space was added to the Latvian National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, a step towards inclusion in the corresponding UNESCO list.
Baiba Šuvcāne, Valts Ernštreits
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Livonian in the linguistic landscape [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 In the context of endangered languages, the linguistic landscape is viewed as an effective way of expressing the symbolic value of a language and enhancing language awareness.
Gunta Kļava, Valts Ernštreits
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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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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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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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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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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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Introductory survey of the South Estonian language islands
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 The South Estonian language islands – Leivu, Lutsi, Kraasna – are three historically South Estonian-speaking exclaves located not only beyond the borders of Estonia, but also geographically separated from the main body of South Estonian speakers for at ...
Uldis Balodis, Karl Pajusalu
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