Editing Selonian language

{{short description|Extinct Baltic language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Selonian
| altname          = Selian
| states           = [[Selonia]]
| ethnicity        = [[Selonians]]
| region           = [[Latvia]] and [[Lithuania]]
| extinct          = 16th century
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]]
| fam3             = [[East Baltic languages|East Baltic]]
| iso3             = sxl
| linglist         = sxl
| glotto           = none
| notice           = IPA
}}
[[Image:Baltic Tribes c 1200.svg|thumb|Distribution of the Baltic tribes, c. 1200 CE (boundaries are approximate)]]

'''Selonian''' was an [[East Baltic languages|East Baltic language]], which was spoken by the [[Balts|East Baltic]] tribe of the [[Selonians]], who until the 15th century lived in [[Selonia]], a territory in southeastern [[Latvia]] and northeastern [[Lithuania]]. The language persisted until the 16th century.<ref>{{cite book | last=Trask | first=R. L. | title=Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics | publisher=Edinburgh University Press | date=2019-08-08 | isbn=978-1-4744-7331-6 | page=303}}</ref>

==History==
Traces of the Selonian language can still be found in the territories the Selonians inhabited, especially in the accent and phonetics of the so-called Selonian dialect of the [[Latvian language]]. There are some traces of the Selonian language in the northeastern sub-dialects of the [[Aukštaitian dialect]] of the [[Lithuanian language]], mostly in the lexicon.{{cn|date=July 2024}}

==Classification==
It is considered that the Selonian language retained the Proto-Baltic sonorant diphthongs *an, *en, *in, *un like the [[Lithuanian language]], but like the [[Latvian language]] the Proto-Baltic {{IPA|*kʲ}}, {{IPA|*ɡʲ}} changed to c, dz, and the Proto-Baltic *š, *ž changed to s, z.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://tied.verbix.com/tree/balt/selonian.html|title=Selonian (Selian) language|last=Babaev|first=Cyril|website=tied.verbix.com|access-date=2017-06-28}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Baltic languages}}

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[[Category:East Baltic languages]]
[[Category:Medieval languages]]
[[Category:Extinct Baltic languages]]
[[Category:Extinct languages of Europe]]
[[Category:Languages of Lithuania]]
[[Category:Languages of Latvia]]

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