Native to Latvia and Lithuania ISO 639-3 xzm Glottolog None | Extinct 16th century Linguist list xzm | |
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Language family Indo-European
Balto-Slavic
Eastern Baltic
Semigallian | ||
Semigallian is an extinct language of the Baltic language sub-family of the Indo-European languages.
History
It was spoken in the northern part of Lithuania and southern regions of Latvia in what is known as Semigallia. It is thought that it was extinct by the 16th century with the assimilation by the Latvians. Semigallian is known only from references to it in documents and texts from before the 16th century.
References
Semigallian language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA