Tags: Ethnic Group.
For the extinct Baltic tribe see Curonians.The Kuršininkai (Curonians; German: Kuren; Lithuanian: Kuršininkai; Latvian: Kursenieki) (sg. Kursenieks) are a nearly extinct Baltic ethnic group living along the Curonian Spit. Kuršininkai refers only to inhabitants of Lithuania and former East Prussia that speak a Latvian language dialect.Autochthonous inhabitants of Palanga in Lithuania call themselves Curonians as well but in Lithuania they usually are counted as Latvians[citation needed].
