Directory of Old Prussian Resources

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Old Prussian is a member of the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family (the two other major Baltic languages are Latvian and Lithuanian). Old Prussian died out in the late 17th century.

Subcategories

• Websites in Old Prussian

Resources in This Category

• Historical Grammar of Old Prussian

  http://donelaitis.vdu.lt/prussian/mazgr.pdf
  A complete historical phonology and morphology of Old Prussiân (or rather, what is known of it). Translation from Lithuanian of a manual by Vytautas Mažiulis.

• Old Prussian Texts

  http://www.kortlandt.nl/editions/
  Electronic versions of some of the most important sources of information on the Old Prussian language, including the Elbing Vocabulary, Simon Grunau's Vocabulary, the Prussian Catechismus I and II, and the Prussian Enchiridion. Editor: prof. Frederik Kortlandt of the University of Leiden (The Netherlands).

• Prussian Language Reconstructions

  http://donelaitis.vdu.lt/prussian/reconstructions.htm
  General linguistic information and dictionary of an extinct language within the Baltic family.

• The Linguistic Position of the Prussian Second Catechism

  http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art215e.pdf
  Detailed analysis by Frederik Kortlandt of the phonology and grammar of the version of the Old Prussian language found in the Second Catechism (originally published in the journal Baltistica in 2002).

Other Languages

• Lithuanian

 

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