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Name:
Liv
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Livonian; Liivõ Keelj; liiv; Livisch; kurländisch-livisch; live; rändalis-; livy; Livian; rānda kēl΄; libiesu valoda; livskij jazyk
Spoken in:
Latvia
Number of speakers:
15 (1995 V. Zeps)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
18
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
liv
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed)
Parent Subgroup:
Finnic; Baltic-Fennic; Baltic Finnic; Balto-Finnic; ostseefinnische Sprachen; Ostseefinnisch; Späturfinnisch; West Finnic; Baltic-Finnic; balto-finnois; Balto-Fennic; Fennic; Baltic sea Finnic; Proto-Finnic (bfin)
Child Dialects:
Eastern Livonian; East Livonian; ostlivischer Dialekt; Vidzeme; östlicher Unterdialekt (liv-eas)
Western Livonian; West Livonian; westlivischer Dialekt; Kurzeme; Raandalist; westlicher Unterdialekt (liv-wes)
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered

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