Selonian language
| Selonian | |
|---|---|
| Selian | |
| Native to | Selonia |
| Region | Latvia and Lithuania |
| Ethnicity | Selonians |
| Extinct | 16th century |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sxl |
sxl | |
| Glottolog | None |
Selonian was an East Baltic language, which was spoken by the East Baltic tribe of the Selonians, who until the 15th century lived in Selonia, a territory in southeastern Latvia and northeastern Lithuania. The language persisted until the 16th century.[1]
History
Traces of the Selonian language can still be found in the territories the Selonians inhabited, especially in the accent and phonetics of the so-called Selonian dialect of the Latvian language. There are some traces of the Selonian language in the northeastern sub-dialects of the Aukštaitian dialect of the Lithuanian language, mostly in the lexicon.
Classification
It is considered that the Selonian language retained the Proto-Baltic sonorant diphthongs *an, *en, *in, *unlike the Lithuanian language, but like the Latvian language the Proto-Baltic *kʲ, *ɡʲ changed to c, dz, and the Proto-Baltic *š, *ž changed to s, z.[2]
References
- ^ Trask, R. L. (2019-08-08). Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-4744-7331-6.
- ^ Babaev, Cyril. "Selonian (Selian) language". tied.verbix.com. Retrieved 2017-06-28.