Galindan
The galindan is an extinct language belonging to the Baltic group Western of the Indo-European Langues.
History
We do not have any more this language but some references. Ptolémée mentions Galindans in its description of the European tribes. It locates them at some share in the south of the the Baltic. The Russians called them Golyad' and knew very well them. Curiously, of the Russian manuscripts of the 11th century indicate their presence close to Moscow, on the river Protva. One spoke the galindan in Prussia until the 14th century.
Distribution
The galindan spoke itself in the south about the Eastern Prussia, where is today is Poland.
Writing
No written document reached us.
Grammar
Just like the Old Prussian, the galindan was a strongly flexional language and of complex structure.
See too
- Linguistic
- Dictionary of the languages
- Languages by family
- Indo-European Languages
- Balto-Slavic group
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