Golyad language

Golyad
East Galindian, Golyadsky
*Galindai
RegionProtva basin
EthnicityEastern Galindians
Extinct12th century AD
Language codes
ISO 639-3xgl (shared with West Galindian)
GlottologNone
Eastern Europe in 7–8th century with Baltic tribes shown in dark purple and Golyad people being shown in the isolated pocket within Slavic territory.
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Golyad (Russian: голя́дский язык, romanized: goljádskij jazyk, based on Old East Slavic: голѧдь, romanized: golędĭ) or East Galindian (Latvian: austrumgalindu valoda, Lithuanian: rytų galindų kalba) was a poorly attested Baltic language of the Dnieper Balts living in the Protva basin in present-day Russia. The Golyad people are believed to have descended from the Moshchiny culture and is the only known ethnonym for the Dnieper-Oka language. Due to there being no known written documents of the Golyad language, the language is poorly known. The language went extinct in the 12th century due to Early Slavic migration and assimilation. It is believed the vernaculars of the Finno-Ugrians and Volga Finns adopted loanwords from Golyad language.

Phonology

Based on Baltic substratum and hydronomy in the Protva basin, the following phonology can be reconstructed:

Consonants

Labial Dental/
Alveolar		 Palatal/
Postalveolar		 Velar
Nasal m n ɲ
Stop pb td cɟ kɡ
Affricate t͡ʃ
Fricative v sz ʃʒ
Approximant median j
lateral l ʎ
Trill r rʲ

Vowels

Front Central Back
shortlong shortlong shortlong
High i iː u uː
Mid eː oː
Mid-low ɛ
Low a aː

Diphthongs

Vocalic diphthongs Mixed diphthongs
-i -u -m -n
a- aiauaman
ɛ- ɛiɛuɛmɛn

Lexicon

There are some Russian dialectal words from the Protva basin region suspected to be of Baltic origin:

Russian Transliteration Translation Proposed Baltic cognates
алáня alánja 'beer' Lithuanian: alìnas 'special type of beer', Lithuanian: alùs, Latvian: aliņš
кромсáть kromsát' 'to break something into pieces' Lithuanian: kramsė́ti, Latvian: kramstīt
нóрот nórot 'fishing gear' Lithuanian: nérti, Latvian: nērt 'to sink'
пикýлька pikúl'ka 'type of weed' Lithuanian: pìkulė 'sisymbrium'

It is believed that the hydronyms "Lama", "Yauza", "Nudol" and "Churilikha" have Baltic origins. Specifically, the Churilikha's name has origins in the Lithuanian word for narrow and other names for the Churilikha such as Goledyanka have origins from the Golyad themselves. It is also believed that the name of the two villages of Golyadi has their names originate from the Golyads.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Балтийские языки". lingvarium.org (in Russian). Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  2. ↑ Dini (2014), p. 307.
  3. ↑ "The Galindan language". tied.verbix. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  4. ↑ Marija Gimbutas (1963). The Balts (PDF). Praeger. pp. 27, 28. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
  5. ↑ Dini, Pietro Umberto (2014). Foundations of Baltic languages (PDF). Vilnius University. pp. 311–312. ISBN 978-609-437-263-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2026-01-06.
  6. ↑ Лекомцева, Маргарита Ивановна (1983). "Zur phonologischen Rekonstruktion der Goljad'-Sprache" [On the phonological reconstruction of the Goljad' language]. Baltistica (in German). 19 (2). Vilnius: Baltų kalbų tyrinėjimai: 114–119. doi:10.15388/baltistica.19.2.1591.
  7. ↑ Dini (2014), p. 312.
  8. 1 2 Evgeny Mikhailovich Pospelov (2008). "Географические названия Московской области: топонимический словарь: более 3500 единиц" (PDF) (in Russian). p. 174. ISSN 0304-3487. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  9. ↑ "В поисках реки Голедянки" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  10. ↑ Walther Friesen (11 December 2020). "1". The Russia-Germans - An Indigenous People of Eastern Europe: An Outline of Its History. Books on Demand. p. 20. ISBN 9783752646337. Retrieved 2024-11-16.

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