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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)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Critically endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered

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