Sudovien

The sudovien or yotvingien is an extinct language belonging to the Baltic group Western of the Indo-European Langues.

History

The Galindie and the Sudovie belonged to the twelve original provinces of Prussia. Sudoviens (or Yotvingiens) lived the vast forests in the south-west of the river Niémen. Ptolémée mentions these people in his manuscripts. At the 10th century, the army of Vladimir Ier, prince of Kiev, forced a good number of Sudoviens to join the Rus' of Kiev. They were invaded and conquered partially by the Slavic ones close to the towns of Białystok and Suwalki in the North-East to the Poland and close to Grodno in Bielorussia. During the centuries which followed, those which succeeded in surviving surrounded of the Russians, of the Poles and the Lithuanians lost early or late their grounds with the Grand-Duchy of Lithuania. The language sudovienne accepted the influence of the Lithuanian more and more. One distinguishes the vestiges of the elements of this language in the Belorusse territories and of the Ukraine because of the colonies of refugees and Prussian prisoners.

Distribution

The sudovien spoke itself in Galindie and Sudovie, of the areas of Eastern Prussia being close to the border of Poland and Bielorussia.

Writing

The sudovien was written by means of the Latin alphabet.

Phonetics

This language had Voyelle S long and short and of a great diversity of Diphtongue S. the phonetic Accent was relatively complex and approached the Lithuanian.

Grammar

Like the Old Prussian, the sudovien had a system of variation with five cases: Personal, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and Vocative. The verbs sudoviens had three simple times, three or four modes and a great quantity of verbal names being used of Participe S or Infinitif S

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