Krevinian dialect

Krevinian
Krevin
Native toLatvia
EthnicityKreevins
Extinctmid-19th century[1]
Uralic
Language codes
ISO 639-3zkv
zkv
Glottologkrev1234

Krevinian, or Krevin (Latvian: krieviņu dialekts) was a dialect of the Votic language, spoken in Latvia until the mid-19th century.[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]

  1. ^ "Krevinian". Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  2. ^ Malte-Brun, Conrad (1829). Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe. A. Finley. pp. 64.
  3. ^ Collinder, Björn (1975). An Introduction to the Uralic Languages. University of California Press. p. 11.
  4. ^ Rajavuori, Anna (2014-04-12). "Seminaariraportti: Performatiivista kulttuuria ja poliittisia performansseja". Elore. 21 (1). doi:10.30666/elore.79129. ISSN 1456-3010.