Editing Sudovian language (section)

===Evidence from other languages===
The Yotvingian territories were later overrun and populated by [[Slavs]] around present-day [[Białystok]] and [[Suwałki]] in north-eastern [[Poland]] and nearby [[Hrodna]] (formerly Grodno) in [[Belarus]]. Some elements of Baltic speech are still retained in the Belarus and [[Ukraine]] territory, owing to the sparse indigenous populations and resettlements of refugees from Lithuania. The dialect of [[Zietela]] ({{langx|be|Дзятлава}}, {{langx|ru|Дятлово}}, {{langx|yi|Zietil}}, {{langx|pl|Zdzięcioł}}) was of particular interest.<ref>{{cite book|last=Vidugiris|first=Aloyzas|title=Zietelos Šnektos žodynas|trans-title=A Dictionary of the Subdialect of Zietela|language=lt|place=Vilnius|publisher=Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas|date=1998|isbn=978-54-2001-403-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Vidugiris |first1=Aloyzas |last2=Mikulėnienė |first2=Danguolė |language=lt |title=Zietelos Šnektos tekstai. I dalis |trans-title=Texts of the Zietela Subdialect. Part I |place=Vilnius |publisher=Lietuvių kalbos institutas |volume=1 |isbn=9986-668-73-5 |date=2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Mikulėnienė|first=Danguolė|title=Concerning the Influence of the Western Balts on the Accentuation System of Western Lithuanian Dialects|journal=Acta Baltico-Slavica|publisher=Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk|year=2006|volume=30|pages=89–96}}</ref> Kazlauskas suggested that the word ''mėnas'' ("month") (dative singular ''mënui'') encountered in dialects (Zietela, [[Lazdijai]]) and in the writings of [[Jonas Bretkūnas|Bretkūnas]] is a remnant of nouns with the stem suffix -s.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jonas|last=Kazlauskas|year=1968|place=Vilnius|page=285|trans-title=Historical Grammar of Lithuanian|publisher=Mintis|title= Lietuvių Kalbos Istorinė Gramatika|language=lt|isbn=}}</ref> The dialect of [[Druskininkai Municipality|Druskininkai]] in Lithuania, too, was influenced by the Sudovian language.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Naktinienė|first1=Gertrūda|first2=Aldona|last2=Paulauskienė|first3=Vytautas|last3=Vitkauskas|title=Druskininkų tarmės žodynas|language=lt|trans-title=Dictionary of the dialect of Druskininkai|place=Vilnius|publisher=Mokslas|year=1988|isbn=978-54-2000-115-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Zigmas|last=Zinkevičius |author-link=Zigmas Zinkevičius|title=Lietuvių kalbos dialektologija|isbn=978-54-2000-778-5|publisher=Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla|language=lt|trans-title=Dialectology of the Lithuanian language|place=Vilnius|year=1994}}</ref>