Krevinian, or Krevin () was a dialect of the

Votic language Votic or Votian (, ) , is a Finnic language spoken by the Vots of Ingria, belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Votic is spoken only in Krakolye (now part of Ust-Luga) and Luzhitsy, two villages in Kingiseppsky District in ...

, spoken in Latvia until the mid-19th century. It was spoken in the city of Bauske, in

Courland Courland is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. Courland's largest city is Liepāja, which is the third largest city in Latvia. The regions of Semigallia and Selonia are sometimes considered as part of Courland as they were ...

. The Krevinian dialect left loanwords into the Bauska dialects, such as 'cudgel'.

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