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The Curonian language, or Old Curonian, is a nearly unattested, extinct language spoken by the Curonians, a Baltic tribe who inhabited the Courland Peninsula and the nearby Baltic shore. Curonian was a Baltic language, most likely Eastern Baltic, intermediate between Lithuanian and Latvian. 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 and the Curonian army maleva. The elder who signed the treaty was named Lammechinus. Self-denomination of Curonians, kure, means 'crane' in Estonian. 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.
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