Curonian
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Key facts
- Native to
- Latvia , Lithuania , Germany (historically)
- Extinct
- 16th century
- Language family
- Indo-European Balto-Slavic Baltic ? East or West Baltic Old Curonian
- Iso 639 3
- xcu
- Glottolog
- curo1234
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical language
- Subclass of
- West Baltic
- Country
- Lithuania
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 0
- linguistic typology
- fusional language
- different from
- Kursenieki
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1600-00-00
- indigenous to
- Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
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Encyclopedic overview
Distribution of the Baltic tribes, circa 1200 CE (boundaries are approximate)
The Curonian language (German: Kurisch; Latvian: Kuršu valoda; Lithuanian: Kuršių kalba), or Old Curonian, was a Baltic language spoken by the Curonians, a Baltic tribe who inhabited Courland (now western Latvia and northwestern Lithuania).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Curonian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.