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Preferred term

prgPrussian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Old Prussian (Prussian: Prūsiskan or Prūsiskai Bilā) is an extinct Baltic language, once spoken by the Old Prussians the indigenous peoples of the Prussia (not to be confused with the later and much larger German state of the same name), now north-eastern Poland and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. The original territory also included eastern parts of Pomerelia (some parts of the region east of the Vistula River). It was also spoken much further east and south in what became Polesia and part of Podlasia with the conquests by Rus and Poles starting in the 10th century and by the German colonisation of the area which began in the 12th century. According to Gimbutas, the entire area has thousands of river names that can be traced back to an original Baltic language, even though they have undergone Slavicization.

Entry terms

  • Old Prussian language

ISO 639-3 code

  • prg

Notation

  • prg

In other languages

  • Vieux-prussien

    French

  • Altpreußische Sprache

    German

  • Lingua prussiana

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma prusiano antiguo

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/prg

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