The waters of the Sūŗ mer (Great Sea or Baltic Sea) and Piški mer (Lesser Sea or Gulf of Rīga) meet at Cape Kūolka.
(Photo: Uldis Balodis; Kūolka (Kolka), Livonian Coast, Latvia, 2019)
Resources and Publications
This section includes resources – articles and other materials by project members on the Southernmost Finnic languages and their prosody. During the course of this project, publications and presentations by project members will also be placed in this section.
Southernmost Finnic
2021. The South Estonian language islands in the context of the Central Baltic area. Miina Norvik, Uldis Balodis, Valts Ernštreits, Gunta Kļava, Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu, Eva Saar.
2021. Broken tone in Leivu and Livonian. Pire Teras, Tuuli Tuisk.
Courland and Salaca Livonian
2018. Acoustics of stød in Livonian. Tuuli Tuisk.
2016. Main features of the Livonian sound system and pronunciation. Tuuli Tuisk.
2015. Livonian word prosody. Tuuli Tuisk.
2014. Survey of research on Livonian prosody. Tuuli Tuisk.
2014. The relationship between Salaca Livonian and Courland Livonian dialects. Karl Pajusalu.
Lutsi and Leivu South Estonian
2021. Introductory survey of the South Estonian language islands. Uldis Balodis, Karl Pajusalu.
2021. Broken tone in Leivu CV’V-words. Pire Teras.
2020. Lutsi kiele lementar | Ludzas igauņu valodas ābece (Lutsi language primer). Uldis Balodis.
2016. Broken tone in South Estonian dialects in Latvia. Uldis Balodis, Karl Pajusalu, Pire Teras.
2010. Quantity in Leivu. Pire Teras.