Latvijas ceļu karte

Road map of Latvia. 1: 200'000. 1940. Road atlas of Latvia. Im Auftrag der Karl Ernst von Baer Foundation in Connection with Hans Feldmann, Wolfgang Kreft, Ingeborg Lilienblum and Guntars Martinsons. Published by Wilfried S c h 1 a u. J. G. LoserInstitute. Marburg/Lahn, 1991. Germany A work prepared by the Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, which is interesting ir only for ne tourists į Latvia, but to linguists, ir especially to the — researchers of the dictionary. Jo foundation in Riga 1940 m. issued "Latvian road atlas" ("Latvijas celu karte") photographic text: maps arrow. 59 ir This atlas is written in Latvian. The authors of the reviewed work, in order to make the atlas more accessible to foreigners, very ingeniously, with German pedantry jį "Germanized": su W. Schlau introductory word in German, explanations in three languages (German, Latvian, English), created various indexes, the most important of which are two: alphabetical list of Latvian place names with German su equivalents and ir alphabetical list of German—Latvian names. Jose — apytiksliai po 2 500 place names. For the linguist, they are interesting primarily because Latvian place names are not mentioned in them. ra "transliterate" į German, "rewrite" in ne German characters, traditional o German equivalents are provided. jų They often differ significantly from Latvian genders, e.g.: lat. Aizpute — vok. Hasenpoth, lat. Bakūži — vok. Backhusen, lat. Barkava — vok. Borchhof, lat. Bebrene — vok. Wern, lat. I'm — drinking. Beyenhof, lat. Berkava — vok. Borkwitz, lat. I'm going — to the bike. Berkenhagen, lat. Bunjac — Wok. Bunsenberg ir t.t. There ir are many cases where the German name is quite different: lat. Bunuži — vok. Kudling, lat. I'm in — love. On, let's go. I'm white. — Kortenhof, lat. I'm a — bitch. Libbien, lat. I got one. — Lost, lat. Brunava — vok. Windsheim, lat. Bukas — vok. Suddenbach, lat. Bunka — wok. Funkenhof, lat. Outlet — vok. Fishing rods. Such cases are quite numerous. They show that the German language The name of the village has changed considerably. A closer analysis of these lists could provide interesting material for determining the laws of adaptation of Latvian place names in German. Be Furthermore, these iš indicators show that there were cases of ir translatiiš on from Latvian į into German, sometimes perhaps ir vice versa — iš from German into Latvian, e.g.: lat. Augstrozes - vok. Hochrosen, lat. "Užupis - vok. Hohendorf, lat. White-tailed hawk. Weifhof, lat. Baltezers vok. — Weiflensee, lat. Ezermuiža — vok. Seehof, lat. Young, Vol. Neuhof, lat. "Mountain". Berghof, lat. Liepas - vok. Lindenhof et al. This is also a fairly common phenomenon, which is possible only in a certain situation — bilingualism (if, of course, it occurs naturally, in the living language of people; something else —cancellary, letters valuables, which, it seems, also existed, only to distinguish these two ways of translation without special studies very difficult). In addition to these two large indexes, the authors of the work have added details of the place names of each map, including urban names (streets, squares, squares), hotels, cultural monuments, petrol stations, etc. ir lists in German and Latvian. They, like the two indicators mentioned above, are again interesting in terms of Latvian-- German interference. It should also be emphasized that all the 243 indexes ir previously " The Road Atlas of Latvia”. Jų there are as many as twelve: villages, village railway stations, lakes, rivers, great mountains, ir etc. The indexes occupy the majority of the atlas and are a serious ir source of Latvian place names. Not to mention that they make it easy for the atlas users to navigate. The publication is beautifully illustrated, the quality of the reprinted maps is enviably good. It remains to be regretted that Lithuania does not have such an atlas. Aleksandras Vanagas ————————=— -e————