Livonian (Livonian: līvõ kēļ or rāndakēļ) 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.

Livonian alphabet and pronunication. Notes. The letters c, q, w, and x are used to write words from other languages. The letters y and ȳ appear in older Livonian texts, and are now written with i and ī. Older texts used ö/o̤ and ȫ, while newer ones use e and ē; Download an alphabet chart for Livonian (Excel) Sample texts in Livonian

The Livonian alphabet has 39 letters. The diacritical marks have the same meaning as in Latvian. A long vowel is written with a macron or straight line ( ā, ǟ, ē, ī, ō, ȱ, ȭ, ū ) and a palatalized or “soft” consonant is written with a comma ( ḑ, ļ, ņ, ŗ, ț ).

Livonian and its speech area; 1. optõbkabāl / Unit 1. 1.1. Sõnāvīļa / Vocabulary; 1.2. Kītõmiži / Expressions; 1.3. Ulzõkītõmi / Pronunciation. Alfabēt / Alphabet; Tūoņ / Tone; Ī’žkillijid / Vowels; Īņõzkillijid / Consonants; Sõnād nȭrka ja viš astām / The weak and strong grades of …

Livonian has eight vowels: i, õ, u, e, ȯ, o, ä, a. All these vowels can be short and long. In the table, Livonian vowels are presented according to the tongue movement in the mouth: In East Livonian, the distinction between long mid, and low back rounded vowels ō and ǭ (no orthographic distinction!) can be made, e.g., lōda ‘table’, tǭla ‘winter’.

We have asked Livonians to read the dialogues and expressions found in the printed version of the textbook. Thanks to the online textbook, anyone interested can listen to them. A sun-shaped symbol is used to direct you from the paper textbook to the online textbook.

Livonian Orthography The Livo­ni­an orthog­ra­phy or writ­ing sys­tem orig­i­nates with the first pub­lished works by lin­guists doc­u­ment­ing Livo­ni­an in the 19th cen­tu­ry. The present form of the Livo­ni­an writ­ing sys­tem came into exis­tence dur­ing pre-WWII Lat­vian inde­pen­dence peri­od.

Jul 29, 2016 · It outlines basic information about the fascinating Liv language's history, its role in Latvian, its usage and grammar. The booklet outlines the alphabet and pronunciation peculiarities of the Livonian language, all in an attractive folding package.

The characters Ḑ ḑ Ģ ģ Ķ ķ Ļ ļ Ņ ņ Ŗ ŗ O and P must always be drawn with a COMMA BELOW, although these characters are identified in ISO standards as LETTERs WITH CEDILLA. Note particularly the ‘ used with the LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH. CEDILLA.

This subsection introduces the Livonian alphabet, tone system, vowels, and consonants. In this photo from 1936, Kōrli Stalte pronounces the vowel u in the University of Tartu phonetics lab. Kōrli Stalte (1870–1947) was a Livonian writer, translator, teacher, and editor of the magazine Līvli.