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Livonian Foodways

Līvõd

Indigenous

The Livonians — a Finnic people, not a Baltic one — on the Kurzeme coast at the tip of Cape Kolka: fishing above all, smoked and salted fish, and sklandrausis, which is often attributed to them. ⚠ THE LANGUAGE HAS NO NATIVE SPEAKERS LEFT; what survives is documentation and revival, and no food tradition is invented for them here.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Livonians community documented

Languages: Latvian

What is recorded

  • Livonian is a Finnic language with no remaining native speakers; what exists is documentation and a revival movement. Their coastal fishing foodways are recorded from ethnography, and nothing is invented to fill the gaps. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Estonian Foodways documented

    Livonian is Finnic and its nearest relatives are Estonian and Võro, not Latvian.

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