The project “Livonic Dialect in Courland: Conception and Methodology of New Classification” (LiviDo) develops an appropriate methodology and uses research approaches that have so far been little known in Latvian dialectology (used mainly in sociolinguistics and geolinguistics) to develop a scientific concept for the delimitation of new boundaries of the Tamian subdialects and the evaluation of more appropriate terminology for naming this group of Livonic dialect. The research is based on the most recent dialectal data collected so far in the 21st century, and the project also aims to collect new dialectal data in the unexplored territory of the Tamian subdialects, especially in the borderline of the deep and the non-deep Tamian subdialects of the Livonic dialect, as well as in the transitional zone of the Livonic and the Couronic subdialects of the Central dialect. To reconstruct the dialectal data, early audio materials of the Courland Livonic dialect from the second half of the 20th century will be digitalized and analysed. The main results of the project will be published on the Open Access website dialekti.lu.lv. 
The aim of the project: To create a new classification of the Livonic dialect spoken in Northern Courland, based on newer dialectal data collected in the 21st century and comparing them to oldest ones acquired in the second half of the 20th century. 
Project leader: Ph.D. Daira Vēvere 
Duration: 01.09.2024–31.08.2025. 
Funding: European Union, National Development Plan