Krevinian dialect explained

Krevinian
Also Known As:Krevin
Ethnicity:Kreevins
States:Latvia
Extinct:19th century AD[1]
Familycolor:Uralic
Fam2:Finnic
Fam3:Southern Finnic
Fam4:Votic
Iso3:zkv
Linglist:zkv
Glotto:krev1234

Krevinian, or Krevin (Latvian: krieviņu dialekts) was a dialect of the Votic language, spoken in Latvia until the 1800s.[2] It was spoken in the city of Bauske, in Courland.[3]

The Krevinian dialect left loanwords into the Bauska dialects, such as kurika 'cudgel'.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Krevinian . https://web.archive.org/web/20120926150707/http://multitree.org/codes/zkv.html . dead . 26 September 2012 . 2024-04-06 .
  2. Book: Malte-Brun, Conrad. Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe. 1829. A. Finley. 64. en.
  3. Book: Collinder, Björn. An Introduction to the Uralic Languages. 1975. University of California Press. 11. en.
  4. Rajavuori. Anna. 2014-04-12. Seminaariraportti: Performatiivista kulttuuria ja poliittisia performansseja. Elore. 21. 1. 10.30666/elore.79129. 1456-3010.