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The extinct Prussian language

The Prussian language became extinct at the start of the 18th century. It was closely related to Lithuanian, Latvian and Polish. The Prussians were ethnically related to the Latvians and Lithuanians before the German people settled in the area. The Poles did once live in the Eastern and Western part of Prussia, though Polish is a Slavic language that is closely related to Ukrainian, Russian and Belrusian. Prussian was first written down during the 13th century. It was written [...]

Prussian, or Old Prussian, is an extinct Baltic language, once spoken by the inhabitants of Prussia (now north-eastern Poland and Kaliningrad). It probably ceased to be spoken around the beginning of the 18th century, due to many of its remaining speakers dying in the famines and bubonic plague epidemics. Old Prussian is distantly related to the surviving Eastern Baltic languages, Lithuanian and Latvian. There are a few experimental communities involved in reviving a reconstructed form of the language in Lithuania, Poland, and other countries.

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Word list information

This dictionary was made by Renato B. Figueiredo.

Prussian > English: 3,774 words
English > Prussian: 1,904 words

Last update: March 21, 2014
First upload: November 5, 2008

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