"Old Prussian" redirects here. For the people, see Old Prussians.
Old Prussian
Prūsiskai[1][2]: 387
Catechism in Old Prussian from 1545
Region
Prussia
Ethnicity
Baltic Prussians
Extinct
Early 18th century[3]
Language family
Indo-European
Balto-Slavic
Baltic
West Baltic
Old Prussian
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
prg
Linguist List
prg.html
Glottolog
prus1238
Linguasphere
54-AAC-a
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Old Prussian was a West Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European languages, which was 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.
^The adverb Prūsiskai ('in Prussian') appears on the title page of the Königsberg catechism of 1561. See Mažiulis, Vytautas (1996). Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological Dictionary of Old Prussian]. Vol. 3. Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-54-2000-109-7.
^Palmaitis, Mykolas Letas (2007). Old Prussian Written Monuments: Text and Comments(PDF). Kaunas: Lithuanian's World Center for Advancement of Culture, Science and Education. ISBN 978-9986-418-42-9.
^Young, Steven (2008). "Baltic". In Kapović, Mate (ed.). The Indo-European Languages. London: Routledge. pp. 486–518. ISBN 978-03-6786-902-1.
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