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Selonian was an Eastern Baltic language, which was spoken by the Eastern Baltic tribe of the Selonians, who until the 15th century lived in Selonia, a territory in southeastern Latvia and northeastern Lithuania.

Selonian
Selian
Native to	Latvia and Lithuania
Extinct	16th century
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Eastern Baltic Selonian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sxl
Linguist List	sxl
Glottolog	None
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History

During the 13th–15th centuries, the Selonians lost their language after being assimilated by the Lithuanians.[1]

Traces of the Selonian language can still be found in the territories the Selonians inhabited, especially in the accent and phonetics of the so-called Selonian dialect of the Latvian language. There are some traces of the Selonian language in the northeastern sub-dialects of the Aukštaitian dialect of the Lithuanian language, mostly in the lexicon.

Classification

It is considered that the Selonian language retained the Proto-Baltic phonemes *an, *en, *in, *un like the Lithuanian language, but like the Latvian language the Proto-Baltic *kʲ, *ɡʲ changed to c, dz, and the Proto-Baltic *š, *ž changed to s, z.[1]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Selonian language

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[es] Idioma selonio

El selonio es una lengua báltica extinta del grupo báltico oriental hablado por los selonios, que hasta el siglo XV vivieron en la región histórica de Selonia, una región al sureste de Letonia y al noreste de Lituania.

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[fr] Sélonien

Le sélonien est une langue éteinte appartenant au groupe balte oriental des langues indo-européennes.

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[it] Lingua selonica

Il selonico era una lingua facente parte del gruppo delle lingue baltiche della famiglia indoeuropea. Questa lingua veniva parlata dalla tribù baltica dei Seloni che vivevano nella Selonia, un territorio nella parte sudorientale della Lettonia e nella parte nordorientale della Lituania.

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[ru] Селонский язык

Село́нский язы́к[1] (также сели́йский[2]; латыш. sēļu valoda, лит. sėlių kalba) — язык балтийского племени селов (селонов). Был распространён до середины XIV века в Селонии: к югу от р. Даугава (юго-восточная Латвия, северо-восточная Литва), главный город был Селпилс. Вытеснен латышским и литовским, оставив следы в их говорах, ономастику.

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