Sūdaunīkas - Ėglupiai, Sūduva
Click here for Old Woodcut Illustration of a Sūdovian
Pajevonys was a major
Sūdovian Cultural / Spiritual Center.
Roman coins (Tiberius/Caligula)
from Pajevonys
predate 2nd Century Ptolemy's mention of Σουδινοί.
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It
is very popular now in Lithuania to refer
to Pre-Christian Sūdovians as Jotvingians.
The primary distinction is religious
and not so much ethnicity & genetics.
By
the 18th Century, most
Sūdovians
were either bi- or tri-lingual,
and thus not identified when speaking
Lithuanian, Polish, or Belarussian.
They converted, went to church,
and inter-married with others.
This is how the Jotvingians "vanished".*
There may still have been old speakers
as late as the 19th Century in the
remote
Białowieża
Forest area.
A census by clergy in Belarus at
that time revealed 31,000 church members
identified themselves as "Yatviags".
"What
happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"
*
Jotvingians "vanished" in the same way
as the Anasazi "vanished" in the American Southwest.
Academics should contact the Zuni for details.
For more info about Sūduva, click below
| "Iš 1857-1860 m. įvairių konfesijų dvasininkų Rusijos Centriniam statistikos komitetui pateiktų duomenų apie tautinę parapijiečių sudėtį matyti, kad Gardino gubernijos Kobrino, Bresto, Valkavisko ir kt. apskrityse tada dar gyveno ~31 tūkst. jotvingių; tiesa, visi ar beveik visi tie jotvingiai jau buvo dvikalbiai arba gudakalbiai, tačiau savuosius papročius daugelis jų išsaugojo iki pat XIX ir XX a. sąvartos (tuomet mirusių jotvingių ar jotvingių kilmės gudų kapai vis dar apdėti akmenimis, mirusiojo galvūgalyje įdėta puodų šukių, o kartais ir kirvis)." |
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