ז׳מאיטית

Samogitian (Žemaitiu kalba, "Lowlander's language") is the principal regional Baltic language of northwestern Lithuania (Žemaitija). Traditionally classified as a dialect of Lithuanian, but its phonological and lexical divergence is substantial — including the preservation of archaic features lost in Standard Lithuanian (e.g., the diphthong ou < *ā). Multiple writing standards have been proposed; the Pabrėža (2009) orthography is now the most widely used. Samogitian Wikipedia (2006) was one of the first regional-language Wikipedias and helped revitalise written Samogitian.