Golyad language

Golyad
East Galindian, Golyadsky
*Galindai
RegionProtva basin
EthnicityEastern Galindians
Extinct12th century AD[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3xgl (shared with West Galindian)
xgl
GlottologNone
Eastern Europe in 7–8th century with Baltic tribes shown in dark purple and Golyad people being shown in the isolated pocket within Slavic territory.
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Golyad (Russian: голя́дский язык) or East Galindian (Latvian: austrumgalindu valoda, Lithuanian: rytų galindų kalba) is a poorly attested extinct Baltic language of the Balts living in the Protva basin in present-day Russia.[2] The Golyad people are believed to have descended from the Moshchiny culture and are only known ethnonyn for the Dnieper-Oka language.[1] Due to there being no known written documents of the Golyad language, the language is poorly known.[3] The language went extinct in the 12th century due to Slavic conquest and assimilation.[1] It is believed the vernaculars of the Finno-Ugrians and Volga Finns adopted loanwords from East Galindian.[4]

  1. ^ a b c "Балтийские языки". lingvarium.org (in Russian). Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  2. ^ Dini (2014), p. 307.
  3. ^ "The Galindan language". tied.verbix. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  4. ^ Marija Gimbutas (1963). The Balts (PDF). Praeger. pp. 27, 28. Retrieved 2024-12-21.

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