Seven Livonian language lessons - Lesson 1 | Seis līvõ kīel stuņḑõ - 1. stuņḑ

[@puhistagram]

These times make your appriciate your family. In my family there is Estonians and Livonians, because I am Finn. I do admire your effort to save Livonian language and culture 🙏🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻❤️

[@johnorsomeone4609]

This is very, very interesting. Thank you from the United States! 🙏

[@kadrimahla]

Sūr tienū!

[@adrianlopez5019]

Fascinante... hace tiempo que quería conocer este idioma, saludos calurosos desde Argentina.

[@birgitfenzl3376]

Thank you very much. I have some old books from my grandmother. My grandmother and my grandoaunt, they were sisters, spoke between them Estnic, both lived in Latvia before WWII. My grandfather was from a German family, Goltz, although 200 years in Latvia took the way to Germany and migrated. My mother was born in Mitava but did not learn the Latvian. But some words which she would say to me and I never forget. As a child she used to say 'paisaken' to my long hair and 'atchen' to the eyes mixing it with German. I always looked to know from where this wordscame.German turns to be my mother tongue with Brazilian Portuguese, because I was born in Sao Paulo. The mother of my grandaunt and my grandmother had the family name Lappin. Thank you so much. I definitely will follow your Chanel and learn more about Latvijan and Livonian. Your work is great.

[@ZemplinTemplar]

I am not a Livonian speaker, but already after a few sentences, I thought to myself "It sounds like Estonian or Finnish, with influence from Baltic languages like Latvian". Thank you for this lesson series. :-) It's good to have insights into the smaller and endangered languages of Europe. I don't live that far from the Baltic countries, and I have a lot of respect for them.

[@joalexsg9741]

This is such a blessed channel, thank you so much guys, it's a cultural treasure preserved in video formats!🙏🙏🙏 Sharing for sure!

[@KibyNykraft]

This "nj" sound in polish and livonian is also used in some norwegian dialects like rural "trønder/trönder" and a couple of the northern dialects (primarily outer coast)

[@Madara-zj2qh]

Lielisks video! Skatos ar lielu interesi.

[@eddykohlmann471]

I'm very interested in this and appreciate your good work to keep this language going.

[@tuntematonolematon2727]

LIVONIAN LANGUAGE ALIVE FOREVER

[@RolandKontson]

12:06 word comparisons

[@antars5581]

Jā, līvu valoda nav saprotama latvju valodai, tomēr līvu valoda stipri ir ietekmējusi latvju valodu - uzsvaru vārdos parasti uz pirmās zilbes, atšķirībā no lietuvju valodas daudz vairāk un garāk stiepti patskaņi, kā leiši saka, latvju valoda skan tā viņiem jocīgi, bet labskanīgāk.... mazāk šņāceņu vairāk garo labskanīgo patskaņu... nu tā man pazīstams leitis teica. Leišiem latvju valodu ir vieglāk iemācīties, nekā otrādi.

[@vanakhoya]

Thanks

[@jeffondrement160]

Some words are indo-european (false?) cognates (e.g. "Min nim")

[@mikahamari6420]

Estonian *Minu nimi* Finnish *Minun nimeni* (basic form nimi) Both mean same as in Livonian: 'My name...' (I suppose; as a Finn I just translate it directly from Finnish). nimi 'name' is probably very old Indo-European loan word. Pronoun stem mi- as well as ti- (2. person) are very similar to IE, which has (as one reason) raised the question about common origin of IE and Uralic languages. Nobody knows.

[@jeffondrement160]

@@mikahamari6420 of course (the Indo-Uralic theory)

[@mikahamari6420]

@Cu6upckuû Yes, they are noticeably similar. For example in Finnish they are *minä* and *sinä* . Partly this similarity is deceptive, because with "sinä" earlier root is "ti-". We have many word roots in Finnic languages that show this change from "ti" to "si". For example word *vesi* 'water' has forms in inflexion in which "t" can be seen. For example illative form (to water) is in Finnish *veteen*

[@felipebranchesi597]

EIROPA ABI!

[@spoqo]

this definitely seems to me like a hungarian...I do speak Finnish but i almost get nothing

[@aareratsepp4584]

Äp saa aru, se let keel!

[@jeffondrement160]

6:00 the balto-finnic people

[@bigwonghong]

aāäǟbdḑeēfghiījklļmnņoōȯȱõȭprsštuūvzž

[@bigwonghong]

dont ask

[@ok-vk9fv]

Kā tu dabūji tos burtus?

[@bigwonghong]

@@ok-vk9fv idk bruh that shit was 2yr ago ion speak no latvian

[@volframs9]

@@bigwonghong 💀

[@bitt3rror_ed]

Skan vairaak kaa finugru valoda

[@universalking22]

Estonians are more related to livonia and livonian than latvians. Livonian came from Estonian.

[@jeffondrement160]

Livonian come from Balto-Finnic but is more related to South Estonian languages such as Voro and Setu

[@Latvian07]

@@jeffondrement160 is Setu a languave or a dialect?

[@jeffondrement160]

@@Latvian07 South Estonian is a language group distinct from North Estonian, although being related. It's the same difference than btw Low and High German.

[@tuntematonolematon2727]

Estonians and Livonian are Finnic. Latvians are Indoeuropeans.

[@universalking22]

@@Latvian07 We (northeners) all say it's a dialect, but they (southeners) say it's a different language. Officially it's a dialect. P.S. there are many dialects, not just one. Oficially we all speak the same language, they don't write documents in their dialects or anything like that.