2 full, 3 partial, a few passive speakers (2016)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Balto-Slavic
Baltic
East Baltic
Latvian
Kursenieki
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
None
The area of Kursenieki language speakers in 1649
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Kursenieki language (Kursenieki: kursisk valuod, German: Nehrungskurisch; Latvian: kursenieku valoda; Lithuanian: kuršininkų kalba) or Curonian language of the Curonian isthmus (German: kurische Sprache der Kurischen Nehrung[2]) is a dialect of the Latvian language spoken by the Kursenieki of the Curonian Spit, a thin strip of land stretching between southwestern Lithuania and the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia. In the process of various migrations of the 14th–17th centuries, Curonians (already speaking a Latvian dialect) settled along the Curonian Spit in East Prussia and became known as Kursenieki.
^Kiseliunaite, Dalia (2016). "The Sociolinguistic Evaluation and Recording of the Dying Kursenieku Language". In Ferreira, Vera; Bouda, Peter (eds.). Language Documentation and Conservation in Europe(PDF). Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 9. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 69–79. hdl:10125/24660.
^Skujiņa, Valentīna (2007). Valodniecības pamatterminu skaidrojošā vārdnīca. Riga: Latvian Language Agency. p. 198. ISBN 978-99-849-8369-1.
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