Curonian (extinct language)

E617076

Curonian was an extinct Western Baltic language once spoken by the Curonian people along the Baltic Sea coast, known primarily from limited historical records and substrate influences in neighboring Baltic and Finnic languages.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Curonian language 4
Curonian 1
Curonian (extinct language) canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Western Baltic language ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ
classificationStatus poorly documented Western Baltic language ⓘ
documentationStatus poorly attested ⓘ
ethnicGroupAssociated Curonians ⓘ
evidence limited historical records ⓘ
substrate influences in neighboring languages ⓘ
extinctionCause Germanisation in the Baltic region ⓘ
language shift to Latvian ⓘ
language shift to Lithuanian ⓘ
geographicContext eastern coast of the Baltic Sea ⓘ
influenced Curonian substrate in Latvian dialects ⓘ
Finnic languages ⓘ
Latvian Couronian dialects ⓘ
Latvian language ⓘ
linked to: Latvian

Lithuanian language ⓘ
Samogitian dialect ⓘ
knownFrom hydronyms ⓘ
loanwords in neighboring languages ⓘ
medieval written sources ⓘ
toponyms ⓘ
languageBranch Baltic languages ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-European languages ⓘ
neighboringLanguages Estonian ⓘ
Latvian ⓘ
Lithuanian ⓘ
Livonian ⓘ
Old Prussian ⓘ
reconstructedFrom comparative Baltic linguistics ⓘ
substrate features in Latvian ⓘ
substrate features in Lithuanian ⓘ
region Baltic Sea coast ⓘ
Courland ⓘ
Lithuanian coast ⓘ
Western Latvia ⓘ
researchField Baltic linguistics ⓘ
substrate studies in Baltic and Finnic languages ⓘ
spokenBy Curonian people ⓘ
linked to: Curonians
status extinct ⓘ
subbranch Western Baltic languages ⓘ
timePeriod Middle Ages ⓘ
early second millennium CE ⓘ
writingSystem no native writing system attested ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proto-Baltic → hasDescendant → Curonian (extinct language) ⓘ
Preila → hasMinorityLanguageHistory → Curonian ⓘ
linked to: Curonian (extinct language)
Baltic languages → hasPart → Curonian language ⓘ
linked to: Curonian (extinct language)
Baltic languages → hasExtinctLanguage → Curonian language ⓘ
linked to: Curonian (extinct language)
Baltic peoples → historicalLanguage → Curonian language ⓘ
linked to: Curonian (extinct language)
Western Baltic → spoke → Curonian language ⓘ
linked to: Curonian (extinct language)