Low Prussian

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Low Prussian

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Calque of German Niederpreußisch.

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A dialect of East Low German that developed in Prussia (West Prussia, Danzig and parts of East Prussia), influenced to some extent by Dutch as well as Baltic and Slavic languages, after 1945 spoken among the expellee community in Germany, now all but extinct, except in the form of its daughter dialect of Plautdietsch.

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Français	bas-prussien
Deutsch	Niederpreußisch

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@misc{low_prussian_2026,
  title = {Low Prussian},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/low%20prussian},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}