Jetvegian

= General information and history = Jitvegian language (self-name. iитвежcки ѣзыкъ, IPA /jitvʲeski æzɨk/) is alternative-historical language, the state language of Jitvingia Republic. It has complex origins. Because of it complicated historical background, that his names are almost uncountable: Jitvegian, Slavic-Jatvegian, Polesian, Dregovichian, Jatvdgo-Dregovian and etc. All this names are used by different researchers, mostly in dependence on their political and historical views. Jitvegian language derived in XVII century directly from Old Church Slavonic that was introduced into everyday life by orthodox priests in Polesie, who hided in West-Polesian Marshlands because of their opposition toward Union of Brest (1596) between Roman Catholic Church Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus. This language was developed under strong influence of local speech - Ruthenian-Jatvingian mixed language, that formed in result of massive migration of Jatvingians (West Baltic Tribes) who fled into Polesia after The Great Prussian Uprising in late XIII century. = Linguistic features =