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The Curonian language ((ドイツ語:Kurisch); (ラトビア語:kuršu valoda); (リトアニア語:kuršių kalba)), or Old Curonian, is a nearly unattested, extinct language spoken by the Curonians, a Baltic tribe who inhabited the Courland Peninsula (now western Latvia) and the nearby Baltic shore. Curonian was a Baltic language, some scholars consider it to have been an Eastern Baltic, intermediate between Lithuanian and Latvian,〔Östen Dahl (ed.) 2001, ''The Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact,'' vol. 1〕 while others like Vytautas Mažiulis classify it as Western Baltic.〔http://www.šaltiniai.info/index/details/300〕 Old Curonian disappeared in the course of the 16th century,〔 leaving substrata in western dialects of the Latvian and Lithuanian, namely the Samogitian dialect. No written documents in this language are known, but some ancient Lithuanian texts from western regions show some Curonian influence. Amateur historian Edgar V. Saks and linguist Eduard Vääri have pointed out several Curonian words and names of possible Finnic origin. For example, a treaty from 1230 calls Curonian administrative divisions ''kiligunden'' (''kihelkond'' in Estonian) and the Curonian army ''maleva''. The elder who signed the treaty was named Lammechinus (resp. Lemminkäinen). Self-denomination of Curonians, ''kure'', means 'crane' in Estonian.〔Edgar V. Saks. ''Aestii''. 1960. p. 116.〕〔Edgar V. Saks. ''Eesti viikingid''. 2005. p. 31–34.〕〔Eduard Vääri, (EESTLASTE TUTVUMINE HÕIMURAHVASTEGA JA NENDE KEELTEGA KUNI 1918. AASTANI )〕 The attested local Finnic language, Livonian, may be the source of Finnic elements in Curonian. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states saw a revival of scientific and cultural interest in extinct Baltic languages and tribes, including Yotvingian, Curonian, and Old Prussian. ==References==
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