Semigallian or Zemgalian, was an East Baltic language of the Baltic language sub-family of the Indo-European languages. It was spoken in the northern part...
Semigallian may refer to: Semigallians, a Baltic tribe Semigallianlanguage, an extinct Baltic language Zemgale, a region in Latvia This disambiguation...
Semigallians (Latvian: Zemgaļi; Lithuanian: Žiemgaliai; also Zemgalians, Semigalls or Semigalians) were the Baltic tribe that lived in the south central...
until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. The Semigallianlanguage belongs to the Eastern Baltic language group. It was spoken in the northern part of...
of other neighboring Baltic tribes—Curonian, Semigallian, and Selonian—which resulted in these languages gradually losing their most distinct characteristics...
has only four living languages—Latvian, Latgalian, Lithuanian, and Samogitian. It also includes now-extinct Selonian, Semigallian, and possibly Old Curonian...
are also several extinct Baltic languages, including: Curonian, Galindian, Jatvingian, Old Prussian, Selonian, Semigallian, and Sudovian. Albanian (c. 5...
Latgalian, which developed into Latvian, and extinct Curonian, Semigallian, and Selonian). The language of Southern Balts was less influenced by this process and...
displaced or assimilated the indigenous, Semigallian speaking peoples. Assimilation of Curonians and Semigallians gave birth to the three Samogitian subdialects:...
competes as one of the oldest European sign languages. Three Baltic languages, Curonian, Selonian and Semigallian were assimilated to Lithuanian in the 16th...
extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
language, which later spread through the rest of modern Latvia, absorbing features of the Old Curonian, Semigallian, Selonian and Livonian languages....
The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million...
(Christi) DE LIVONIA. Following their defeat by the Samogitians and Semigallians in the Battle of Schaulen (Saule) in 1236, the surviving Brothers merged...
Livonians had often been under attack by their southern neighbours, the Semigallians, who at first had considered the Saxons (Germans) to be useful allies...
Latgallians, Selonians, and Estonians (by the Germans and Danes, 1193–1227). Semigallians and Curonians (1219–1290). Old Prussians. Lithuanians and Samogitians...
Nameisis or Namejs (also Nameise, Nameyxe) was a Semigallian duke in the second half of the 13th century. He ruled in the western part of Semigallia,...
the merger of Latgalians, as the main component, with the Selonians, Semigallians, Curonians and Livonians, the last ones are a Finnic people and not an...
historical Žemaitija (before 12th–13th centuries it was inhabited by southern Semigallians and southern Curonians) became ethnically Lithuanian between the 13th...
languages and dialects that have no native speakers, no spoken descendents, and diverged from their parent language in Europe. Europe portal Language...
Samogitians lived in western Lithuania and were closely related to Semigallians and Curonians. In 1413, they became the last group of Europeans to convert...
1259 and the Battle of Durbe in 1260. This encouraged the conquered Semigallians and Old Prussians to rebel against the Knights. Encouraged by Treniota...
medieval chroniclers mentioned Old Prussians, Curonians and Semigallians. The Lithuanian language is considered to be very conservative for its close connection...
the Livonian Brothers of the Sword and pagan troops of Samogitians and Semigallians. Between 48 and 60 knights were killed, including the Livonian Master...
Viesthard, Vesthardus, Viesturs; died 1230) was one of the greatest Semigallian dukes in the 13th century, referred to as King Vester (Old High German:...
completely depopulated. This vacuum was filled by Latvian tribes – Curonians, Semigallians, Latgallians and Selonians – who started to move into the area around...
Selonians, Semigallians (in Latvian: kurši, latgaļi, sēļi and zemgaļi), as well as the Finnic tribe of Livonians (lībieši) speaking a Finnic language. In the...
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