Sudovian
Conjugate VerbsFacts
- Language: Sudovian
- Alternate names: Jatvingian, Yotvingian
- Language code: sudo
- Language family: Indo-European, Baltic, Western (SIL classification)
- Number of speakers: Extinct
- Script:
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Introduction
Sudovian is an extinct western Baltic language in Northeastern Europe. Closely related to the Old Prussian language, it was formerly spoken southwest of the Nemunas river in what is now Lithuania, East of Galindia and North of Yotvingia, and as exiles in East Prussia.
The verb
Sample verb: būt, būtun
| INDICATIVE | IMPERATIVE | OPTATIVE | ||
| Present | Past | |||
| S.1. | esmā | bei | - | būlai |
| S.2. | esei | sais | ||
| S.3. | est | - | ||
| P.1. | esmai | beimai | - | būlimai |
| P.2. | estei | beitei | saite | būlitei |
| P.3. | est | ? | - | ? |
External links
- Galindian Language & Galinda
References
- Schmalstieg, William R.. An Old Prussian Grammar: The Phonology and Morphology of the Three Catechisms. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
- Eckert Rainer et al.. Die baltischen Sprachen. Eine Einführung. Langenscheidt Verlag. Leipzig, 1994.
- Berneker, Erich. Die Preussische Sprache. Strassburg, 1896.