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Old Prussian

Old Prussian is documented on Dialect Atlas across 1 dialect: Old Prussian.

Dialects of Old Prussian

Old PrussianPrussian · PrūsiskanThe only substantially attested West Baltic language, spoken in historical Prussia around the Sambia peninsula — today's Kaliningrad Oblast and north-eastern Poland. Extinct since the early 18th century, after the 1709–1711 plague; attested in three 16th-century catechisms and the Elbing vocabulary, with a modern reconstruction movement.

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