Selonian language
Selonisch was a Baltic language that at the lower Daugava from the Selonians in today Südostlettland and Eastern Lithuania was spoken.
language
It is closely related to the Semgallic dialect, but also contains similarities with Lithuanian, as well as elements of West Baltic languages, such as B. Prussian.
history
Since the middle of the 14th century at the latest, Selonic seems to have been pushed back by the neighboring dialects of Semgallic and Lower Lithuanian.
Selonic was still spoken by some people in the 19th century.
The characteristics of the language are now reconstructed from names of waters, place names and a few written evidence.
literature
- Rainer Eckert, Elvira-Julia Bukevičiūtė, Friedhelm Hinze: The Baltic languages. An introduction. Langenscheidt Verlag, Enzyklopädie Verlag, Leipzig / Berlin / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-324-00605-8 .
- Ernst Fraenkel : The Baltic languages . Carl Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 1950
- Daniel Petit: Studies on the Baltic languages (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics). Brill, 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-17836-6 .
- Karaliūnas S .: Sėlių kalba ( The Selonian Language ) (Lithuanian), Mokslas ir gyvenimas, 1972, № 1.
- Mažiulis V .: Selonica , Baltistica , XVII (1), 1981.