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Yotvingians Yotvingians or Sudovians (also called Suduvians, Jatvians, or Jatvingians in English) (; ; , , ) were a Baltic people with close cultural ties in the 13th century to the Lithuanians and Prussians. The Yotvingian language (sometimes called "Sudovian") was a Western Baltic language nearest to Prussian, but with small variations. They were referred to in regional historical records into the 19th century.
Yotvingians J. Pashka, acknowledging Kibin's proposal, has similarly interpreted the ethnonym as derived from the Old Norse "Játvígr", with a genitive "Játvígs" liðsmenn ( ᛃᚨᛏᚢᛁᚴᛋ ᚱᛟᚦᛋ ) label of Játvígr's Viking expedition and his Norse Rus' settlers ( i.e. Indura, Belarus ) by the Nemunas river. Pashka asserts the nasal infixation in the original Old Norse "Játvíg" name of the 944-945 Kiev Treaty was probably an insignificant scribal error or misinterpretation, that has survived to the present.
Yotvingians The Yotvingian lived in the area of Sudovia (Yotvingia) and Dainava, southwest from the upper Neman. Today this area corresponds mostly to the Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland, portions of Lithuania and a part of Hrodna Province of Belarus. The territory was between later the Marijampolė and Merkinė (Lithuania); Slonim and Kobryn (Belarus); and Białystok, and Lyck, now Ełk (Poland).
Yotvingians Vytautas the Great wrote about "terra Sudorum", in a letter to King Sigismund of March 11, 1420.
Yotvingians А. С. Кибинь ( A.S. Kibin ) proposed Yotvingian, or the "Slavic Jatviagi as the group name goes back to O. N. patronymic derivative játvingar meaning « the descendants of Játvígr », or « the people of Játvígr »" - "the name Játvígr mentioned by Knytlinga saga".