Editing Curonian language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct Baltic language of Courland}}
{{About|Curonian language|the language spoken at the Curonian Spit|Kursenieki language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Old Curonian
| nativename       = 
| states           = [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Germany]] (historically)
| region           = 
| extinct          = 16th century
| ref              = <ref name=EEO/>
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]]
| fam3             = [[Baltic languages|Baltic]]?
| fam4             = [[East Baltic languages|East]] or [[West Baltic languages|West]] Baltic
| iso3             = xcu
| linglist         = xcu
| glotto           = curo1234
| map              = Baltic languages.png
| mapcaption       = {{legend|#F68D59|Curonian}}
}}
[[Image:Baltic Tribes c 1200.svg|thumb|Distribution of the Baltic tribes, circa 1200 [[Common Era|CE]] (boundaries are approximate)]]

The '''Curonian language''' ({{langx|de|Kurisch}}; {{langx|lv|kuršu valoda}}; {{langx|lt|kuršių kalba}}), or '''Old Curonian''', was a [[Baltic language]] spoken by the [[Curonians]], a [[Baltic tribe]] who inhabited [[Courland]] (now western [[Latvia]]<ref name="Dini">{{cite book|first=Pietro U.|last=Dini|title=Foundations of Baltic languages|translator-first1=Milda B.|translator-last1=Richardson|translator-first2=Robert E.|translator-last2=Richardson|publisher=Vilniaus universitetas|place=Vilnius|date=2014|isbn=978-609-437-263-6}}</ref>{{rp|pages=291-293}}<ref name="EEO">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Kurisch |encyclopedia=Wieser-Enzyklopädie des Europäischen Ostens |publisher=Wieser |location=Klagenfurt/Vienna, Austria |url=http://eeo.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?title=Kurisch |access-date=2012-05-12 |last=Haarmann |first=Harald |date=2002 |author-link=Harald Haarmann |editor-last=Miloš Okuka |volume=10 |pages=957 |language=de |trans-title=Curonian |isbn=3-85129-510-2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019173036/http://eeo.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?title=Kurisch |archive-date=2013-10-19 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and northwestern [[Lithuania]]<ref>[https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/kursiai/ "Kuršiai"] [Curonians] (in Lithuanian). [[Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija|''Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia'']]. Retrieved on 8 November 2023.</ref>).