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Marja Kallasmaa (born 21 August 1950 in Kehra) is an Estonian linguist. [1]
In 1975 she graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in Estonian philology. Since 1978, she has worked at the Estonian Language Institute. [1]
Her main field of research has been onomastics. She is the leading onomastic in Estonia. In 1998 she laid the foundation to the database of Estonian toponyms. [1]
She is a member of Mother Tongue Society. [1]
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The Livonian language is a Finnic language whose native land is the Livonian Coast of the Gulf of Livonia, located in the north of the Kurzeme peninsula in Latvia. Although its last native speaker died in 2013, there are about 40 reported L2 speakers and 210 having reported some knowledge of the language. Possibly uniquely among the Uralic languages, Livonian has been described as a pitch-accent language.
Muhu Parish is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Saare County. It has a population of 1876 and an area of 208 km2 (80 sq mi).
An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms and autonyms, or endonyms.
Tapa Parish is a rural municipality in Lääne-Viru County in northern Estonia.
Latinisationof names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style. It is commonly found with historical proper names, including personal names and toponyms, and in the standard binomial nomenclature of the life sciences. It goes further than romanisation, which is the transliteration of a word to the Latin alphabet from another script. For authors writing in Latin, this change allows the name to function grammatically in a sentence through declension.
The northeastern coastal dialect is a Finnic dialect traditionally considered part of the Estonian language. The Estonian coastal dialects were spoken on the coastal strip of Estonia from Tallinn to river Narva. It has very few speakers left nowadays.
Kloogaranna is a village in Lääne-Harju Parish, Harju County, Estonia. It has a population of 121.
Lahe is a village in Põlva Parish, Põlva County in southeastern Estonia.
Popsiküla is a village in Põlva Parish, Põlva County in southeastern Estonia.
Öörahu is an island belonging to the country of Estonia.
Elena Lvovna Berezovich is a Russian linguist known for her work in onomastics, etymology, and ethnolinguistics. She is currently a professor at the Department of Russian Language and General Linguistics of the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg). Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), corresponding member of the RAS.
Liivanuka ots is an Estonian islet with surface area of 0.0059 hectares. It is a sandy, oval-shaped islet, stretching in a north-south direction. It lies southeast of the island of Hiiumaa in the Jausa rand, next to the islet of Hanerahu. Liivanuka ots is part of Hiiumaa Parish, Hiiu County. The islet belongs to Hiiumaa Islets Landscape Reserve.
Riikka Pulkkinen is a Finnish author, who has published six novels. Pulkkinen, currently living in Helsinki, was born and raised in Oulu in North Finland. She gained wide international attention with her second novel, True.
Haavistu is a village in Rõuge Parish, Võru County in southeastern Estonia. The population has been 3 since 2021.
Raekoja plats is town square beside Tartu Town Hall in the center of the Tartu Old Town in Tartu, Estonia.
Wiedemann Language Award is an Estonian state award which is granted each year to one natural person for outstanding merits upon study, organisation, teaching, promotion or use of the Estonian language.
Pärnu Central Library is a library in Pärnu, Estonia.
Kraasna is an extinct dialect of South Estonian that was spoken in Russia by the Kraasna Estonians who were immigrants to the area. The last native speaker died before World War two, but it was still spoken in the 1930s. Kraasna was documented by Oskar Kallas.
Tiit Hennoste is an Estonian philologist and linguist.
Valdek Pall was an Estonian linguist.
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