Editing Curonian language (section)

==Classification==
Curonian was an Indo-European language of the Baltic branch, as proven by [[Jānis Endzelīns]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=kuršių kalba |encyclopedia=[[Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia]] |publisher=Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras |url=https://www.vle.lt/Straipsnis/kursiu-kalba-24309 |access-date=6 July 2019 |language=lt |trans-title=Curonian language}}</ref>

Curonian's relation to other Baltic languages is unclear:<ref name="EEO"/>
*Some scholars consider it to have been an [[East Baltic languages|East Baltic language]], intermediate between [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] and [[Latvian language|Latvian]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=The Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact |date=2001 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |editor-last=Dahl |editor-first=Östen |volume=1: Past and Present |language=en |editor-last2=Koptjevskaja-Tamm |editor-first2=Maria|place=Amsterdam, Philadelphia|isbn=9789027230577}}</ref>
* Others, like [[Vytautas Mažiulis]], classify it as a [[West Baltic languages|West Baltic language]] that became closer to the Eastern branch due to extensive contact.<ref>{{cite book|first=Pietro U.|last=Dini|title=Foundations of the 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|page=295}}<ref>{{cite book|first=Vytautas|last=Mažiulis|title=Iš lietuvių etnogenezės|chapter=Apie senovės vakarų baltus bei jų santykius su slavais, ilirais ir germanais|publisher=Mokslas|language=lt|year=1981|place=Vilnius}}</ref>
* Linguist Eduard Vääri argues that it is possible that Curonians were [[Baltic Finns]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vääri |first=Eduard |date=n.d. |title=Eestlaste tutvumine hõ imurahvastega ja nende keeltega kuni 1918 |url=http://www.suri.ee/hs/vaari.html |access-date=2021-11-04 |website=suri.ee |language=et}}</ref>