This portal was created by Līvõ Kultūr sidām (The Livonian Culture Centre) and offers a wide range of information on the Livonians, their culture, language, and history. Here you can discover the places the Livonians have lived, their cultural monuments, the location of their most important archives, and also about new Livonian-related events and exhibitions. You can learn about Livonian traditional and contemporary culture as well as become acquainted with their community organisations and most important personalities. The UL Livonian Institute section contains information about this institution as well as Livonian-Estonian-Latvian dictionary which is updated on an ongoing basis and which is supplemented with word forms and data from the Livonian language corpus. This section also contains the Livonian place name list, a list of Livonian borrowings in Latvian, and other resources for learning about and studying Livonian. The Library section contains a collection of articles, links, and videos on Livonian topics grouped by category.
We wish you success learning about Livonian culture!
1895 – Ferdinand Linnus, an Estonian ethnographer and researcher of the Liv ethnography, author of the first Estonian ethnographic documentary ‘A day on the Liv coast’ was born.
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1996 – the 6th Saeima (Parliament) adopted amendments in the ‘Law on changes of the record of a person’s name, surname and nationality’, to be applied also to the record of the nationality ‘Liv’.
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1974 – Valt Ernštreit, a Liv language expert, the first director of the Liv Culture Center was born.
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1920 the first expedition under Lauri Kettunen and Oskar Loorits to collect the Liv language and folklore samples started.
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1940 – Vilnis Blažēvics, a Liv artist was born. Died in 1990.
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