Grizelda Kristiņa (, née Bertholde; 19 March 1910 – 2 June 2013) was a
Livonian and the last speaker of the
Livonian language
Livonian ( or ) is a Finnic language whose native land is the Livonian Coast of the Gulf of Riga, located in the north of the Kurzeme peninsula in Latvia but also used to be spoken in the Salaca River valley. Although its last known native ...
as a
mother language. She was born in
Vaide () within the Bertholds family, relevant in the history of the Livonians. She was a relative of
Viktors Bertholds, who died in 2009 and for a long time had been believed to be the last speaker of Livonian. After Kristiņa's death, a process for
reviving the Livonian language was started.
References
1910 births
2013 deaths
Latvian women centenarians
Ethnic Livonians
Last known speakers of a language
Canadian people of Latvian descent
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