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why is Estonian marked as a minority language in South Estonia and parts of Latvia? AS to my knowledge the language islands in Latgale are long extinct for now.T6nis (talk) 02:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
- I suppose lighter shade of blue represents South estonian dialects of Voru, Setu, Mulgi and Tartu. All of them are placenames. Leivu, Lutsi(Ludza) and Kraasna(Kranij is name for red in russian - on some maps it has name in latvian - Sarkaņi) are placenames as well. It is kina interesting, because based on the logic of this map Latvian language would extend to Moscow only on basis, that latvians lived there and called Moscow in different name - Maskava...
- It is hard to tell even if those people were colonists that were moved or mix of locals. All three baltic people are mix of finnish and baltic. The thing is - we can paint parts of Estonia or all of it based on previous (now unknown and forgotten) baltic tribes that inhibited it... The problem with the map is that it shows map for estonian dialects and this map should not have been there in first place, because it is outside of Estonia and estonian is not spoken there, because if we have to dig really deep, then estonian is just a variety of finnish and it would make sense to make map of Finnish language and paint some shades in Estonia...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Estonian#/media/File:South_Estonian_language_area.jpg
- And yes - there are no estonian people groups in Latvia in those places. To make it clear, places in Latvia, unlike Lauri colony, that was latvian inhabitated and now part of Russia, were never part of territorial claims.
