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The aim of this article is to give an overview of the Livonian sound system and pronunciation. Regarding Livonian dialectal variation, the main difference is between East and West Livonian, while Central Livonian forms a transition area. The basis of the Livonian written language is the East Courland dialect. This article focuses on standard pronunciation, with some discussion of variation. Vowels and consonants are treated separately. In addition, Livonian prosodic features are discussed. Livonian stands out as being a Finnic language that has been influenced by the Baltic language, Latvian. Unlike many other Finnic languages, Livonian has voiced stops and fri catives, which can occur as long geminates. There is a large number of short and long monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs in Livonian.Kokkuvõte. Tuuli Tuisk: Liivi keele häälikusüsteemi ja häälduse põhijooned. Käesolevas artiklis antakse ülevaade liivi keele häälikusüsteemist. Kuramaa liivi murrete seisukohalt on suurim erinevus ida- ja lääneliivi vahel, samas kui keskliivi ehk Īra kujutab endast üleminekuala. Tänapäeva liivi kirja keel põhineb Kuramaa idaliivi murdel. Artiklis kirjeldatakse liivi standard hääldust, tuues paralleelselt välja ka mõned murdeerinevused. Vokaale ja konsonante kirjeldatakse eraldi. Lisaks antakse ülevaade liivi prosoodiasüsteemist. Liivi keel on läänemeresoome keelte seas mõneti ainulaadses olukorras, kuna keeles on mõjutusi balti keelte hulka kuuluvast läti keelest. Erinevalt teistest läänemeresoome keeltest esinevad liivi keeles helilised klusiilid ja frikatiivid, mis võivad ilmneda ka pikkade geminaatidena. Samuti on liivi keel huvitav lühikeste ja pikkade monoftongide, diftongide ja triftongide rohkuse poolest.Märksõnad: konsonandid, vokaalid, toon, prosoodia, liivi keelKubbõvõttõks. Tuuli Tuisk: Līvõ kīel kilūd sistēm ja īeldõm pǟummitõd. Sīe kēra võttõksõks um iļļõvaņtļimi līvõ kīel kilūd sistēmst ja īeldõmst. Kurmǭ līvõ mūrdõd sūŗimi vait um um idā- ja lǟndlīvõd vail, sidāmi jag agā Īra um iļlǟdõb murd. Tämpiz līvõ kērakīel pūojõks um idālivõ murd. Kēras sǭb vaņțõltõd līvõ kīel standardīeltõmi, paralel ulzõ tūodsõ ka mingizt murdvaitõd. Īžkillijid ja īņõzkillijid sōbõd vaņtõltõd īžkiz. Vel sǭb vaņțõltõd līvõ kīel prozodij sistēmõ. Līvõ kēļ um vāldamiersūomõ kīeld siegās eņtšvīți, ku kīelsõ um mȯjtõkši lețkīelstõ. Tuoistiz ku sūrs jags vāldamiersūomõ kēļši, līvõ kīelsõ ātõ īelkõks vizād ja ȭrdõd īņõzkillijid, mis võibõd jeddõ tūlda ka kui pitkād kǭdkõrdizt kilūd. Līvõ kīelsõ um ka pǟgiņ lītiži ja pitkīdi īdkõrdiži, kǭdkõrdiži ja kuolmkõrdiži īžkiļļijidi.

The article focuses on the study of Livonian word prosody and deals primarily with the role of quantity and tone and their phonetic realization. One of the purposes of this paper is to carry out an investigation of the realization of the temporal and tonal characteristics of words consisting of a short first syllable and a half-long second syllable (CV.C ^V structure) in spontaneous speech. An acoustic-phonetic analysis of the recordings of spontaneous speech by four speakers was carried out. In addition, the interaction between pitch alignment and durational changes in three structures of disyllabic words is analyzed. K Ke ey yw wo or rd ds s: : Livonian, word prosody, quantity, pitch alignment. I In nt tr ro od du uc ct ti io on nThe current paper focuses on Livonian quantity and tonal system. The paper deals with the Courland Livonian spoken on the Livonian Coast in Latvia. The Livonian prosodic system has been quite thoroughly studied during the past years. Extensive work has been carried out within the project investigating the prosody of Finno-Ugric languages. The aim of this project is to analyse lesser-known Finno-Ugric languages using modern experimental tools of acoustic phonetics (Lehiste, Pajusalu 2010). The project has so far dealt with the study of Erzya, Meadow Mari and Livonian (2003, 2005. The investigation of Moksha prosody is in progress (see for example Aasmäe, Pajusalu, Zirnask 2011). The initiator of the study of the prosody of Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Tartu was the late Professor Ilse Lehiste.The Livonian prosodic system has similarities to that of Estonian as well as Latvian. In Livonian, primary stress is fixed, falling on the first syllable of a word. The tonal system is similar to Latvian. There is a tone opposition in the primary stressed syllable. Like Latvian, Livonian uses stød as one of its prosodic features (for Latvian, cf. Markusa 1991). Words * The present paper was supported in part by the Estonian Science Foundation, Grant No. 8409. The author is very grateful to Pärtel Lippus for his help with the correlation test, Prof. Karl Pajusalu for his encouragement and valuable comments, and Eva Liina Asu-Garcia for editing the language of this paper.