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I am downgrading the assessment of this article for the WikiProject Latvia. Where are the references? Talk/ ♥фĩłдωəß♥\ Work 21:06, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Language at the time was (Lower) German, definitely not Latvian. Joostik ( talk) 13:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps this should be merged with the Courland colonization article? - 82.11.96.31 ( talk) 13:44, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
The statement "Courland had a population of only 200,000, mostly of German and Scandinavian ancestry" seems wrong to me. The other wikipedia pages (English, Lithuanian) say that it had a population of 619,154 in 1870, mostly Latvian peasants. The Latvian page says population was 200 000 in 1794. Tripled in 80 years? Mainly German? I am confused.
Hm... Actually, it looks like the subject is obscure enough people don't really know what to say. Google books suggests a few present-day writers use phrasing like Colonization by Courland and just avoid the issue. Apparently, the original demonym was "Curonian", "Courish" and "Courlandish" became more popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, and now people are starting to go back to "Curonian"... — LlywelynII 18:53, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Ok. Running the numbers for the following at Google Books & Scholar (with -wiki -wikipedia -spit -lagoon):
So definitely needs another move. Since WP:COMMONNAME prefers the most common use over pedantically correct and the scholars aren't 100% behind "Curonian", I'll go with the extra "O". — LlywelynII 19:06, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
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I am downgrading the assessment of this article for the WikiProject Latvia. Where are the references? Talk/ ♥фĩłдωəß♥\ Work 21:06, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Language at the time was (Lower) German, definitely not Latvian. Joostik ( talk) 13:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps this should be merged with the Courland colonization article? - 82.11.96.31 ( talk) 13:44, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
The statement "Courland had a population of only 200,000, mostly of German and Scandinavian ancestry" seems wrong to me. The other wikipedia pages (English, Lithuanian) say that it had a population of 619,154 in 1870, mostly Latvian peasants. The Latvian page says population was 200 000 in 1794. Tripled in 80 years? Mainly German? I am confused.
Hm... Actually, it looks like the subject is obscure enough people don't really know what to say. Google books suggests a few present-day writers use phrasing like Colonization by Courland and just avoid the issue. Apparently, the original demonym was "Curonian", "Courish" and "Courlandish" became more popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, and now people are starting to go back to "Curonian"... — LlywelynII 18:53, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Ok. Running the numbers for the following at Google Books & Scholar (with -wiki -wikipedia -spit -lagoon):
So definitely needs another move. Since WP:COMMONNAME prefers the most common use over pedantically correct and the scholars aren't 100% behind "Curonian", I'll go with the extra "O". — LlywelynII 19:06, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
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