Prussians, the Baltic peoples of the Prussian region. The language is called Old Prussian to avoid confusion with the German dialects of Low Prussian...

Old Prussians, Baltic Prussians or simply Prussians were a Baltic people that inhabited the region of Prussia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic...

Yotvingian, or Jatvingian) was a West Baltic language of Northeastern Europe. Sudovian was closely related to Old Prussian. It was formerly spoken southwest of...

Silesia and Thuringia, and was influenced by the Baltic Old Prussian language. High Prussian is a Central German dialect formally spoken in Prussia. It...

branches of Baltic languages, along with East Baltic. It includes Old Prussian, Sudovian, West Galindian, possibly Skalvian and Old Curonian.: 33  The...

supplanted Old Prussian, which became extinct in the early 18th century. Simon Dach's poem Anke van Tharaw was written in Low Prussian. Low Prussian is a Low...

Sudo. The Old Prussians spoke a variety of languages, with Old Prussian belonging to the Western branch of the Baltic language group. Old Prussian, or related...

In 1525, with the Prussian Homage, the territory became the Duchy of Prussia, a vassal duchy of Poland. The Old Prussian language had become extinct...

indigenous language is guaranteed by Latvian law A few linguists and philologists are involved in reviving a reconstructed form of the extinct Old Prussian language...

Christianize under duress the pagan Old Prussians. Invited after earlier unsuccessful expeditions against the Prussians by Christian Polish princes, the...

of Prussia Old Prussian language, language of the Old Prussians, now extinct High Prussian, German dialect in East Prussia Low Prussian, German dialect...

Pomeranian language. It is close to standard Polish with influence from Low German and the extinct Polabian (West Slavic) and Old Prussian (West Baltic)...

remaining Polish language area. The Masurian dialect group has many Low Saxon, German and Old Prussian words mixed in with Polish-language endings. Beginning...

Ural Mountains, but this hypothesis has been questioned. Old Prussian, a Western Baltic language that became extinct in the 18th century, had possibly conserved...

pour. Numerous linguists consider the Yotvingian language as a dialect of the Old Prussian language. The Lithuanian linguist Petras Būtėnas states that...

as other countries of Europe. The Prussians were eventually assimilated by the colonists and the Old Prussian language became extinct by the end of the...

run since the year 1687. The Polish name Motława is derived from Old Prussian language. In German the river is known as Mottlau. A common theory for the...

lightly populated area. Inhabitants of the now Masuria spoke a language now known as Old Prussian and had their own mythology. Although a 19th-century German...

country as a European great power through the victories of the powerful Prussian Army. Prussia made attempts to unify all the German states (excluding the...

the southeast. They likely spoke a West Baltic language, now extinct, similar to Old Prussian language. Natangians are first mentioned in a 1238 treaty...

The Prussian Union of Churches (known under multiple other names) was a major Protestant church body which emerged in 1817 from a series of decrees by...

extinct Baltic language of the Galindians previously spoken in what is today northeastern Poland and thought to have been a dialect of Old Prussian,: 290  or...

1561, both duchies being fiefs of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Old Prussians had withstood many attempts at conquest preceding that of the Teutonic...

general consensus that the Baltic languages can be divided into East Baltic (Lithuanian, Latvian) and West Baltic (Old Prussian). The internal diversity of...

Pomeranian Low Prussian Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German, used also in many other countries) Anglo-Frisian Old Frisian† Frisian West Frisian languages West Frisian...

The Prussians were forcibly assimilated by the invaders and the Old Prussian language became extinct by the end of the 17th century. Several years of...

Albrecht decreed that Luther's Catechism was to be translated into the Old Prussian language, Polish, and Lithuanian, so that the creed could unite the people...

The Prussian Lithuanians, or Lietuvininkai (singular: Lietuvininkas, plural: Lietuvininkai), are Lithuanians, originally Lithuanian language speakers,...

Baltic and Slavic languages have more in common that others: Old Prussian and Latvian share more commonalities with Slavic languages than Lithuanian does...

"Pil" in several documents, possibly taking its name from pils the Old Prussian language word for fort. It was eventually conquered by the Teutonic Knights...