I'm surprised that the number is even that high. I do draw some relief from the fast that the language was reasonably well recorded, no?  It is and it also have some revival things too. One livonian girl, whose mothertongue was already latvian, interested about her roots on university and started to study livonian. Fortunately her grandma lived and had opportunity to learn it real. After that she have made songs and poetry (maybe new literature too) on livonian. There is band called Tulli Lum that sings in livonian. I have one cd.       And in later more stable years the ethnic Livs can resurrect this lost heritage, much as the Cornish and Manx languages are doing in Britain.   That might be possible.        Any examples, apart from Muumii or whatever those hippo things are called? :D   Oh, what can I tell.. :eek: toki, no, konin, suru, mikon, otto, sai, kino, nuku, haka, kutsu, kara, haikara, hai, ken, himo, hana, kasa, kura, me, sato, sora, naru, ani, teki, kakka. These according short word list in Antero Vipunen (1953). Also tehre is lots of words, that might aswell be Finnish word, but just is not. I mean composition of vovels and consonants are very similar. :D