Lielie Tjapši (Ludza: Jānikülä or Sūreq Tsäpsiq[1]) is a small village in the extreme eastern part of the Pilda Parish of Ludza Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia.
The last native speakers of Ludza lived in Lielie Tjapši; the dialect persisted there because of Antoņina Nikonova, who was a passionate speaker of Ludza.
Lielie Tjapši is very small and only has a few houses.
This Latgale location article is a stub.
You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.