A series of short films is being published online providing an introduction to the Livonian language, indigenous to a few remaining parts of Latvia and considered one of the most endangered languages ...

With a population estimated at just around 200, Europe's smallest ethnic group is fighting to save its language and culture from extinction. When Davis Stalts spoke of his seafaring grandfather, it ...

Livonian Heritage Day was celebrated on Sunday in the southwestern Estonian border town of Ikla, and interest in the language and culture has steadily grown in recent years. Livonians are among the ...

There are only around 250 of them left in Latvia today, many scattered far from the coastline which bears their name. Theirs is a Finnic language related to Finnish and Estonian. Hundreds of years ago ...

From the tumultuous middle ages to the mid-20th century, Livonian flourished as the mother tongue of thousands in a province on the eastern Baltic coast. Invaders came and went; rulers were appointed ...

Livonians are among the smallest Finno-Ugric nations still existing today. They are the closest kindred people to Estonians and Livonian language is the closest one to Estonian language. Currently, ...

Researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science have added Livonian, Komi, Veps and 14 other low-resource Finno-Ugric languages to Neurotõlge, the University’s machine translation ...

The Gentle Sounding Of Livonians A Week Before The End Of The World ...

This is the second part of an interview I conducted with Livonian poet and translator Valts Ernštreits, who is currently the director of the Livonian Institute, founded in 2018, at the University of ...