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Livonians used to be the indigenious group of people living in North Latvia and South-Western Estonia.
Now, the only place with preserved Livonian identity is near the Cape Kolka(black area on the map below)
Liguistically, Livonian language is Finnic language, the closest languge to Livonian is Estonian
Livonian language officially has status of dead language since there are no Livonian native speakers, but there are few hundred of people who use it everyday despite it's the language they learnt. There are some projects that learn a bit about the Livonians and unable people to learn the basics of Livonian language.
For example these websites(both are available in English):
http://www.livones.net/en/valoda
http://virtuallivonia.info/
Also recently there was serie of 7 Livonian language lessons but actually it's more about Livonians and their history itself, than language learning serie.
Anyway here is the first episode of them(they speak Latvian and Livonian in the videos but there are English subtitles) which is introduction to series
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