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Facts about Prussian

• Language code (ISO 639-3): prg
• Other names for "Prussian": Old Prussian
• The Prussian language is spoken in: Poland

Old Prussian was a Western Baltic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, once spoken by the Old Prussians, the Baltic peoples of the Prussian region.

The language is called Old Prussian to avoid confusion with the German dialects of Low Prussian and High Prussian and with the adjective Prussian as it relates to the later German state.

Old Prussian began to be written down in the Latin alphabet in about the 13th century, and a small amount of literature in the language survives.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Prussian_language

Dictionaries

• Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas: etymological dictionary of the Prussian language, by Vytautas Mažiulis

• Lithuanian words (cognates)

• Latvian words (cognates)

• Latin words (cognates)

• Prussian reconstructions: Prussian-Latvian-English-German dictionary, after the Etymological dictionary of the Prussian language of Vytautas Mažiulis

• Thesaurus linguæ prussicæ by Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann (1873)

• Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der preußischen Sprache by Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann (1871)

• Etymologisches Wörterbuch der prußischen Sprache: etymological dictionary of the Prussian language, by Erich Berneker (1896)

• Old Prussian Elbing vocabulary: German-Prussian vocabulary, manuscript of early 15^th century, certainly a copy of a text written at the beginning of 14^th century

• Deutsch-preußisches Vocabularium: German-Prussian Elbing vocabulary (early 15^th century), introduced by Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann (1868)

• Von underscheit der Sprachen: German-Prussian vocabulary, by Simon Grunau (early 16^th century), appeared in his book Preußische Chronik (~1525, see 1875 edition)

• Note on the tradition of the Old Prussian Grunau's vocabulary by Pietro Dini, in Res balticæ (2013)

• Zu den angeblich polnischen Wörtern im altpreußischen Vokabular Simon Grunaus: about the words considered as Polish in the vocabulary of Simon Grunau, by Bohumil Vykypěl (1998)

• Die altpreußischen Personennamen: The Old Prussian names, by Ernst Lewy (1904)

• Lexicon pomesanicum restitutum by Mykolas Letas Palmaitis

• Old Prussian fish-names by Václav Blažek, Jindřich Čeladín, Marta Běťáková, in Baltistica (2004)

http://donelaitis.vdu.lt/prussian/databan.htm

Sources

https://www.lexilogos.com/english/prussian_dictionary.htm

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