New books: Livonian

[Johanna Laakso]

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> (From Lincom Europa, re-forwarded by Roberts Freimuts <freimuts at acs.ryerson.ca>)
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> Also forwarded to mailing lists LIVOD and UGRIMUGRI.
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> Livonian
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> CHRISTOPHER MOSELEY
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> The Livonian, or Liv, language (Livonian randa kel 'coast language')
> is a member of the Baltic-Finnic subgroup within Finno-Ugric. It was
> until recently spoken in twelve costal villages of Kurzeme province in
> Latvia.  At the beginning of the twentieth century it had over two
> thousand speakers, but the dispersal of the population during two
> world wars and subsequently during the Soviet period has meant thtat
> the language has not been passed on to youngre generations, so that at
> present only about ten elderly first-langauge speakers remain
> alive. However, since the independence of Latvia in 1991, teaching of
> teh language has been resumed and other cultural activities to foster
> the langauge have provoded an opportunity for the belated revival of
> the language.  Livonian is a written langauge, but the orthography has
> varied somewhat during the period of just over a century since it was
> firdt committed to writing.
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> ISBN 3 89586 158  8.
> Languages of the World/Materials 144.
> Ca. 60pp. Ca. USD 38.00 / EUR 38 / =A3  27.
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