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41-652: The name Carnikava is believed to be of Livonian origin, with Sarnikau translating as ' ash tree valley' ( ošleja in Latvian ). In German, the name Koivemund translates as 'the mouth of the Koiva (river)', with Koiva being a Finno-Ugric name of the Gauja River . Sānkaule was briefly borrowed from one of the names of Carnikava Manor at the time. The village was first mentioned in Livonian Chronicle of Henry in 1211 as

82-567: A 2009 conference proceeding, it was mentioned that there could be "at best 10 living native" speakers of the language. The promotion of the Livonian language as a living language has been advanced mostly by the Livonian Cultural Centre ( Līvõ Kultūr Sidām ), an organisation of mostly young Livonians. Livonian as a lesser used language in Latvia – along with Latgalian – is represented by

123-645: A Livonian coastal village just yesterday" and qualified as the last living native speaker of the Livonian language of her generation. She died on June 2, 2013. The survival of the Livonian language now depends on young Livonians who learnt Livonian in their childhood from grandparents or great-grandparents of the pre-war generations. There are not many of them, though there are a few hundred ethnic Livonians in Latvia now who are interested in their Livonian roots. Some young Livonians not only sing folk-songs in Livonian but even strive to use Livonian actively in everyday communication. One such younger generation Livonian speaker

164-568: A great deal of contact with Estonians, namely between ( Kurzeme ) Livonian fishers or mariners and the Estonians from Saaremaa or other islands. Many inhabitants of the islands of Western Estonia worked in the summer in Kurzeme Livonian villages. As a result, a knowledge of Estonian spread among those Livonians and words of Estonian origin also came into Livonian. There are about 800 Estonian loanwords in Livonian, most of which were borrowed from

205-805: A summoning place of Livonian troops. Later Carnikava grew into a fishermen village, where in the 17th century the first breeding fishery and canned fish factory in the Russian Empire was built. Due to its proximity to the Baltic Sea , several forest lakes, the Gauja and annual fishermen and craftsmanship fairs, nowadays Carnikava is a popular summer resort among visitors from Riga. Heinz Christian Pander (1794-1865), researcher of biology , embryology and paleontology , lived and worked in Carnikava in his estate. The Carnikava Manor ( Latvian : Carnikavas muiža ), built in

246-423: A vestige of an earlier pitch accent . Livonian has also a large number of diphthongs , as well as a number of triphthongs . These can also occur as short or long. The two opening diphthongs /ie/ and /uo/ vary in their stress placement depending on length: short ie , uo are realized as rising [i̯e] , [u̯o] , while long īe , ūo are realized as falling [iˑe̯] , [uˑo̯] . The same applies to

287-610: Is Julgī Stalte  [ lv ; et ] , who performs with the Livonian-Estonian world music group Tuļļi Lum . In 2018, the Livonian Institute at the University of Latvia (Livonian: Lețmō Iļīzskūol Līvõd institūt ) was established to promote research and awareness of the language. It is led by Valts Ernštreits. In 2020 Livonian language revival activists Jānis Mednis and Renāte Medne started teaching Livonian as

328-769: Is a Finnic language whose native land is the Livonian Coast of the Gulf of Riga , located in the north of the Kurzeme peninsula in Latvia but also used to be spoken in the Salaca River valley. Although its last known native speaker died in 2013, a child, Kuldi Medne, born in 2020 is reported to be a native speaker of Livonian. Her parents are Livonian language revival activists Jānis Mednis and Renāte Medne. Also, there are about 40 reported L2 speakers and 210 having reported some knowledge of

369-589: Is also pictured on the coat of arms of the parish. Carnikava lamprey has been awarded the Protected geographical indication seal of the European Union and is included into the Latvian Intangible Cultural Heritage list. This Vidzeme location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Livonian language Livonian (Livonian: līvõ kēļ or rāndakēļ )

410-452: Is very unusual for a Finnic language. There are about 2,000 Latvian and 200 Low Saxon and German loanwords in Livonian and most of the Germanic loanwords were adopted through Latvian. Latvian, however, was influenced by Livonian as well. Its regular syllable stress, which is based on Livonian, is very unusual in a Baltic language. Especially as of the end of the nineteenth century there was

451-654: The Soviet Census of 1989 , 226 people were Livonian, and almost half of them spoke Livonian. According to estimates of the Liv Culture Center in 2010, only 40 people spoke Livonian in everyday life. In 2013, there were none who spoke Livonian in everyday life. The first Livonian words were recorded in the Livonian Chronicle of Henry . The first written sources about Livonian appeared in the 16th century. The collection of Livonian poems "Mariners sacred songs and prayers" (Latvian: Jūrnieku svētās dziesmas un lūgšanas )

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492-568: The 17th century, was destroyed by Russian soldiers in a fire in the autumn of 1917 around the time of the Riga offensive , with the ruins ultimately demolished by the Soviet occupational authorities in the 1960s to make way for a Soviet military cemetery. Today, a column chapiter in the middle of a park in the center of Carnikava marks the heritage of the manor. Until 1992, most of the Carnikava Parish

533-601: The 2023 Latvian Song and Dance Festival , for the first time in the history of the event, a song with Livonian lyrics was featured. Lībieši nāk (Latvian: 'Livonians are coming'), the 2nd part of the musical cycle Nācēji by Inese Zandere  [ lv ] and Valts Pūce  [ lv ] was performed during the Grand Choir Concert Tīrums. Dziesmas ceļš . Livonian, like Estonian , has lost vowel harmony , but unlike Estonian, it has also lost consonant gradation . Livonian has 8 vowels in

574-533: The Latvian Bureau of Lesser Used Languages (LatBLUL), formerly a national branch of the European Bureau of Lesser Used Languages (EBLUL). The language is taught in universities in Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden, which constantly increases the pool of people with some knowledge of the language who do not permanently reside in Latvia. In the 19th century, about 2,000 people still spoke Livonian; in 1852,

615-573: The Latvian capital, and then went to the village of Mazirbe (where there is a Livonian cultural center ) or to Livonian language-only camps. The Livonian language revival movement is not being supported by either the government of Latvia or any other (such as the Estonian one), so it depends on Livonian cultural organizations . Some examples of these are the Livonian Association ( Līvõd Īt ),

656-482: The Liv Culture Center. Two sites were included in the Atlas Linguarum Europae to study Livonian: Miķeļtornis and Mazirbe . Viktors Bertholds (10 July 1921 – 28 February 2009), one of the last Livonian speakers of the generation who learnt Livonian as a first language in a Livonian-speaking family and community, died on 28 February 2009. Though it was reported that he was the last native speaker of

697-473: The Livonian culture, art, and figures of the national movement, and in 1998 with the support of the "Open Society," the first collection of poetry in Livonian, " Ma akūb sīnda vizzõ, tūrska! ", was published and presented in Finland and Estonia. It combines the works of famous Livonian poets. To date, the only Livonian media outlet is the trilingual (English-Latvian-Livonian) Livones.lv (livones.net) operated by

738-592: The Livonian language, empty Livonian lands inhabited by the Latvians, which contributed to the replacement of the Livonian language in favor of Latvian. It is estimated that at the time of the German colonization, there were 30,000 Livonians. In the 19th century the number of speakers of the Couronian dialect is estimated as follows: 2,074 people in 1835, 2,324 people in 1852, 2,390 people in 1858, 2,929 people in 1888. According to

779-624: The Saaremaa dialect. The Livonian language once spoken on about a third of modern-day Latvian territory, died in the 21st century with the death of the last native speaker Grizelda Kristiņa on 2 June 2013. Today there are about 210 people mainly living in Latvia who identify themselves as Livonian and speak the language on the A1-A2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and between 20 and 40 people who speak

820-588: The Society of Friends of Livonia ( Liivi Sõprade Selts ) or the Livonian Cultural Center ( Līvõ Kultūr Sidām ). These organize cultural events and publish studies on the Livonians, including their language. As of 2011, the number of people who had some knowledge of the language at a level of A1 or A2 was of 210, while those who had a knowledge of B1 or higher were 40. Some of them learned what they know of

861-541: The Soviets and settled in Canada , where she lived until her death. She helped researchers preserve the language while being there. Shortly before her death, in the Latvian census of 2011, some 250 people declared their ethnicity to be Livonian . Since the restoration of Latvian independence in 1991, the Livonian language has been undergoing a revival process. As of 1998, there were already young Livonian volunteers motivated with

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902-677: The UoL Livonian Institute in cooperation with the UNESCO Latvian National Commission and the Latvian National Cultural Center, with various events held by individuals and institutions. In January 2023, the first of 171 approved road signs in Latvia with Latvian and Livonian text were placed on the border of Talsi Municipality . Similar signs are being placed in Latgale featuring Latgalian . During

943-520: The armies of either occupation force by hiding in the woods . After the war, Bertholds worked in various professions and shared his knowledge of the Livonian language with many field linguists; in the 1990s, he also taught Livonian in children's summer camps. Bertholds' Livonian-speaking brother and wife died in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, many other prominent "last Livonians" also died, such as Poulin Klavin (1918–2001), keeper of many Livonian traditions and

984-437: The death of its last fluent native speaker, Grizelda Kristiņa , on 2 June 2013. Nevertheless, today there are several ethnic Livonians that are striving for the revival of the language , with about 210 people with some knowledge of it in the world. The Livonian language is a Finnic language , similar to Estonian and Finnish , spoken in Latvia . Its gradual decline, which had already been occurring for centuries earlier,

1025-407: The first language to their newborn daughter Kuldi Medne. As of 2023 she was the only Livonian native speaker in Latvia. In October 2022, her parents published Kūldaläpš Zeltabērns ('Golden Child'), a book in Livonian and Latvian for children and parents, with plans for subsequent books and an audio version. 2023 was proclaimed as Livonian Heritage Year (Livonian: Līvõd pierāndõks āigast ) by

1066-405: The idea of reviving the language. Some of them were taught it by Livonian teachers through a textbook made by Kersti Boiko, a professor at the University of Latvia , with 800 words designed to be taught on 10 lessons. A collection of Livonian poems had also been published and printed by then. A decade later, the movement was still popular among Livonian youth, some of whom met regularly in Riga ,

1107-417: The language on level B1 and up. Today all speakers learn Livonian as a second language. There are different programs educating Latvians on the cultural and linguistic heritage of Livonians and the fact that most Latvians have common Livonian descent. Programs worth mentioning include: Livonian language revival The Livonian language , spoken for centuries in Latvia , gradually declined until

1148-471: The language through programs of the Latvian Academy of Culture or the universities of Tartu , Helsinki or Latvia. A report by Public Broadcasting of Latvia published on 18 October 2022 claimed that two-year-old Kuldi Medne was the only person in Latvia for whom Livonian was the mother language. Her parents are Livonian language revival activists Jānis Mednis and Renāte Medne. On 25 January 2023,

1189-594: The language, Livonians themselves claimed that there were more native speakers still alive, albeit very few. As reported in the Estonian newspaper Eesti Päevaleht , Viktors Bertholds was born in 1921 and probably belonged to the last generation of children who started their (Latvian-medium) primary school as Livonian monolinguals; only a few years later it was noted that Livonian parents had begun to speak Latvian with their children. During World War II, Bertholds, unlike most Livonian men, managed to avoid being mobilized in

1230-566: The language. Possibly uniquely among the Uralic languages but similarly to Latvian and Lithuanian , Livonian has been described as a pitch-accent language (or restricted tone language , see below ). Some ethnic Livonians are learning or have learned Livonian in an attempt to revive it , but because ethnic Livonians are a small minority, opportunities to use Livonian are limited. The Estonian newspaper Eesti Päevaleht erroneously announced that Viktors Bertholds , who died on 28 February 2009,

1271-606: The last Livonian to reside permanently on the Courland coast, and Edgar Vaalgamaa (1912–2003), clergyman in Finland, translator of the New Testament and author of a book on the history and culture of the Livonians. The last native speaker of Livonian was Grizelda Kristiņa , née Bertholde (1910–2013, a cousin of Viktors Bertholds), who lived in Canada from 1949. According to linguist and activist Valts Ernštreits, she spoke Livonian as well "as if she had stepped out of her home farm in

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1312-512: The number of Livonians was 2,394. Various historical events have led to the near total language death of Livonian: In the 13th century, the native Livonians inhabited all the areas around the Gulf of Riga, except for the Estonian island of Saaremaa. In the 12th–13th centuries the Livonian lands were conquered by the Teutonic Order . The conquest led to a strong decrease in the number of speakers of

1353-412: The table below . Additionally two archaic vowels are given in parentheses: All vowels can be long or short . Short vowels are written as indicated in the table; long vowels are written with an additional macron ("ˉ") over the letter, so, for example, [oː] = ō . The Livonian vowel system is notable for having a stød similar to Danish. As in other languages with this feature, it is thought to be

1394-600: The triphthongs uoi  : ūoi . Livonian has 23 consonants : /f h/ are restricted to loans, except for some interjections containing /h/ . Voiced obstruents are subject to being either devoiced or half-voiced in the word-final position, or before another unvoiced consonants ( kuolmõz /ˈku̯olməs ~ ˈku̯olməz̥/ "third"). The Livonian alphabet is a hybrid which mixes Latvian and Estonian orthography. Livonian has for centuries been thoroughly influenced by Latvian in terms of grammar, phonology and word derivation etc. The dative case in Livonian, for example,

1435-468: Was 250 copies. The Livonians received only one copy of each dialect. The second book in Livonian was the same Gospel of Matthew , published in 1880 in St. Petersburg , with an orthography based on Latvian and German . In the interwar period , there were several dozen books published in Livonian, mainly with the help of Finnish and Estonian organizations. In 1930, the first newspaper in Livonian, " Līvli ",

1476-654: Was a part of Ādaži Parish , with its western part included in Mangaļi Parish until after World War II , when it was abolished and split between Riga's Mangaļi neighbourhood and Ādaži Parish. In 1992, Carnikava Parish split from Ādaži Parish, with both being parts of the Riga District until 2009, when a separate Carnikava Municipality was created. Ultimately, it was merged into the Ādaži Municipality as Carnikava Parish in 2021. A notable symbol and long-time culinary specialty of Carnikava has been grilled lamprey , which

1517-406: Was accelerated after the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 . The Soviet Army took control of the Livonian Coast , the place where a few hundred Livonian speakers still remained, and restricted access to the area. The Livonian language became extinct on 2 June 2013 when Grizelda Kristiņa , its last fluent native speaker, died at age 103. She had left Latvia in 1944 due to its occupation by

1558-441: Was gradually eliminated in the smaller villages and concentrated in the larger population centres of Kolka , Roja , and Ventspils . Limits were placed on freedom of movement for inhabitants. All of these factors contributed to the decline of the language, although some initiatives appeared from the early 1970s onwards. After Latvia regained its independence, the newsletter " Õvā " was published in Livonian in 1994, dedicated to

1599-668: Was published. In 1942, a translation of the New Testament was published in Helsinki . It was translated by Kōrli Stalte , with help from the Finnish linguist Lauri Kettunen. After WWII , books in Livonian were no longer published, as Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union . The whole area of the Livonian Coast became a restricted border zone under tight Soviet supervision. Coastal fishing

1640-461: Was the last native speaker who started Latvian-language school as a monolingual. Some other Livonians had argued, however, that there were some native speakers left, including Viktors Bertholds' cousin, Grizelda Kristiņa , who died in 2013. An article published by the Foundation for Endangered Languages in 2007 stated that there were only 182 registered Livonians and a mere six native speakers. In

1681-595: Was translated to Latvian by Jānis Prints and his son Jānis Jr. and was published in 1845. The first book in Livonian was the Gospel of Matthew , published in 1863 in London in both the eastern and western Courland dialects. It was translated into eastern Couronian by Nick Pollmann and into western Couronian by Jānis Prints and Peteris. The plan with the book was to establish a standard orthography by F. Wiedemann, which consisted of 36 letters with many diacritics. The total circulation

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