Livonian
rānda kēļ; Liv; Liivõ Keelj; liiv; Livisch; kurländisch-livisch; live; rändalis-; livy; Livian; rānda kēl΄; libiesu valoda; livskij jazyk;
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"...in 2011 a 101-year-old speaker was known to be living... in Toronto; she moved away [from Latvia] in 1944. She has since died, and so, in terms of native-born mother-tongue speakers, the language could be said to be extinct." "Ethnic Livonians using the heritage language are scattered."
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"on the northern edge of the coast of Kurzeme province in western Latvia."
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Līvõ Kultūr Sidām (Latvia), Liivi Sõprade Selts (Tartu, Estonia), Livonian-German dictionary, New Testament
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"on the northern edge of the coast of Kurzeme province in western Latvia."
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"...it is not actively promoted by central government in either Estonia or Latvia. Therefore the language is destined to be the focus of a minority interest group and, even on its home territory, the reminders of the language’s presence are pretty weak."
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"Riga city: Kurzeme district, west of Kolkasrags, 12 coastal villages; otherwise scattered."
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"Riga city: Kurzeme district, west of Kolkasrags, 12 coastal villages; otherwise scattered."
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In 1989, fifty speakers were reported from Latvia and about the same number in parts of the Russian Federation, but these figures were clearly inflated. There is possibly only one speaker with full native competence, which makes the language nearly extinct. At the same time, there are several younger descendants of Livonian speakers who have learnt Livonian as second language and cultivate it actively.
2007
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Spoken mainly along the northern coast of Curonia in the northwest, but also scattered elsewhere; formerly also in the historical province of Livonia east of the Gulf of Riga.
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Spoken mainly along the northern coast of Curonia in the northwest, but also scattered elsewhere; formerly also in the historical province of Livonia east of the Gulf of Riga.
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About 35 persons could speak Livonian in 1990, 15 of them fluently.
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Ancient Livonians lived in Livonia, i.e. in the 60--100 km wide area on the eastern coast of the Livonian Bay from the Väina river (Daugava) to the Estonian territory and in north Courland among the Courlanders. Some researchers are of the opinion that the Livonian habitat in North Latvia could have been wider. According to the chronicle of Henrik the Lett, the Livonians lived at the estuary of the Väina, on the Koiva (Gauya) and in Salatsi (Salaca). Nowadays, there are only an insignificant number of Livonians, living in the coastal villages of Northwest Courland and dispersed throughout Latvia (Ventspils, Talsi, Riga).
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Ancient Livonians lived in Livonia, i.e. in the 60--100 km wide area on the eastern coast of the Livonian Bay from the Väina river (Daugava) to the Estonian territory and in north Courland among the Courlanders. Some researchers are of the opinion that the Livonian habitat in North Latvia could have been wider. According to the chronicle of Henrik the Lett, the Livonians lived at the estuary of the Väina, on the Koiva (Gauya) and in Salatsi (Salaca). Nowadays, there are only an insignificant number of Livonians, living in the coastal villages of Northwest Courland and dispersed throughout Latvia (Ventspils, Talsi, Riga).
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire"The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook
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