Somewhere, a few years ago, I ran across a web site
devoted to the preservation of the Prussian language.
If you now ask me where this site is, I would not be
able to tell you.
>From memory (mine) it seems that the meanings, umlauts,
and sentence structure was a bit different than the
languages spoken in what was considered Germany
(duchies, free cities, Kingdoms, etc.)
I am not sue where this organization is based but the
web site was lengthily in information, maybe by a professor
somewhere in a university that is being funded by someone.
Regards,
Robert Lipprandt
>researching Schulte, Flick, Büscher<
>Hückeswagen, Kreis Düsseldorf, Preußen<
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From: Roy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: [WFA] Something Precious was Lost
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> Subject: [WFA] Something precious was lost.
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> > I get odd feelings in the discussions of Prussia. My wife is half
> Lithuanian. Recently I found out how proud that the Lithuanians are that
> they have kept their language. Somewhere along the line the Prussian
> language was lost. It seems such a tragedy to me.
> > kenn
> >
> That was an interesting post. I knew that Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia
> had their own languages, with Latvian and Lithuanian being Slavic and
> Estonian being Finno-Ugric (like Hungarian and Finnish), but I did not
know
> there was there was a former Prussian language. I did know that the
> Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg took over the small eastern German state of
> Prussia, renamed their country Brandenburg-Prussia, then dropped the
> Brandenburg as they expanded their territories throughout northern
Germany.
> I was also aware that the original Prussia was a tiny province in the
> eastern part of their domains. But I didn not know that there was a
> separate Prussian language. I assumed it was some dialect of German like
> other North German dialects.
>
> What was the original Prussian language like? Was it Slavic (like
Russian,
> Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian) or was it a dialect of German (like
> Plattdeutsch)?
>
> Roy Johnson
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