Kursenieki language

Kursenieki
Kursenieki
kursisk valuod
Region	Curonian Spit (historically), Germany (nowadays)
Native speakers	2 full, 3 partial, a few passive speakers (2016)
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Baltic East Baltic Latvian Kursenieki; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
	The area of Kursenieki language speakers in 1649
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Kursenieki language (Kursenieki: kursisk valuod, German: Nehrungskurisch; Latvian: kursenieku valoda; Lithuanian: kuršininkų kalba) or Curonian language of the Curonian isthmus (German: kurische Sprache der Kurischen Nehrung^[2]) is a dialect of the Latvian language spoken by the Kursenieki of the Curonian Spit, a thin strip of land stretching between southwestern Lithuania and the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia. In the process of various migrations of the 14th–17th centuries, Curonians (already speaking a Latvian dialect) settled along the Curonian Spit in East Prussia and became known as Kursenieki.

^ Kiseliunaite, Dalia (2016). "The Sociolinguistic Evaluation and Recording of the Dying Kursenieku Language". In Ferreira, Vera; Bouda, Peter (eds.). Language Documentation and Conservation in Europe (PDF). Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 9. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 69–79. hdl:10125/24660.
^ Skujiņa, Valentīna (2007). Valodniecības pamatterminu skaidrojošā vārdnīca. Riga: Latvian Language Agency. p. 198. ISBN 978-99-849-8369-1.

[Kiseliunaite-1] Kiseliunaite, Dalia (2016). "The Sociolinguistic Evaluation and Recording of the Dying Kursenieku Language". In Ferreira, Vera; Bouda, Peter (eds.). Language Documentation and Conservation in Europe (PDF). Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 9. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 69–79. hdl:10125/24660.

[2] Skujiņa, Valentīna (2007). Valodniecības pamatterminu skaidrojošā vārdnīca. Riga: Latvian Language Agency. p. 198. ISBN 978-99-849-8369-1.

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