Golyad | |
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East Galindian, Golyadsky | |
*Galindai | |
Region | Protva basin |
Ethnicity | Eastern Galindians |
Extinct | 12th century AD[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xgl (shared with West Galindian) |
xgl | |
Glottolog | None |
![]() 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. | |
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]
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