A series of short films is being published online providing an introduction to the Livonian language, indigenous to a few remaining parts of Latvia and considered one of the most endangered languages ...

With a population estimated at just around 200, Europe's smallest ethnic group is fighting to save its language and culture from extinction. When Davis Stalts spoke of his seafaring grandfather, it ...

There are only around 250 of them left in Latvia today, many scattered far from the coastline which bears their name. Theirs is a Finnic language related to Finnish and Estonian. Hundreds of years ago ...

Europe is blessed with a huge array of national languages. English is the most widely spoken language, including non-native speakers. Russian takes the crown for the most native speakers. Sometimes ...

This is the second part of an interview I conducted with Livonian poet and translator Valts Ernštreits, who is currently the director of the Livonian Institute, founded in 2018, at the University of ...