Selonian language

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Selonian was a language appertaining to the Baltic languages group of the Indo-European languages family. This language was spoken by the Eastern Baltic tribe of Selonians, who lived until the 15th century in Selonia, a territory in South Eastern Latvia and North Eastern Lithuania.

During the 13th-15th centuries the Selonians lost their language being assimilated by Latgalians and partly by Lithuanians.

The traces of the Selonian language can be still found in the territories Selonians inhabited, especially in the accent and phonetics of the so-called Selonian dialect of the Latvian language.