Editing Curonian language (section)

==Corpus==
===Evidence from other languages===
Curonian left substrata in western dialects of the Latvian and Lithuanian, namely the [[Samogitian dialect]]. No written documents in this language are known, but some ancient Lithuanian texts from western regions show some Curonian influence. According to Lithuanian linguist [[Zigmas Zinkevičius]], long and intense Curonian–Lithuanian bilingualism existed.

===Onomastics===
There are only few onomastics in the region considered to have been inhabited by the Curonians.<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=297}}

There are attested names of Curonian noblemen such as: {{ill|Lammekinus|lv|Lamekins|lt|Lamekinas}}, {{lang|xcu|Veltūnas}}, {{lang|xcu|Reiginas}}, {{lang|xcu|Tvertikis}}, {{lang|xcu|Saveidis}}.

===Potential text in Curonian===
Additionally, the Pater Noster reported by [[Simon Grunau]] is speculated to be in Curonian.{{r|Dini|pages=297}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schmid|first=Wolfgang P.|year=1962|title=Zu Simon Grunaus Vaterunser|trans-title=On Simon Grunau's Lord's Prayer|language=de|place=Berlin|journal=Indogermanische Forschung|pages=261–273|issue=67}}</ref>

'''Lord's Prayer after Simon Grunau'''
{{lang|bat|<poem>
Nossen thewes, cur tu es delbes
sweytz gischer tho wes wardes
penag munis tholbe mystlastilbi
tolpes prahes girkade delbeszisne tade symmes semmes worsunii
dodi mommys an nosse igdemas mayse
unde gaytkas pames mumys nusze noszeginu cademes pametam musen prettane kans
newede munis lawnā padomā swalbadi munis nowusse loyne Jhesus amen.</poem>}}