Talk:Old Prussian language

message: Ok -- First, this information is probably copyrighted and should therefore be removed.  Second, it does nothing to inform the reader about Old Prussian -- a language more related to Baltic languages than to Germanic ones, and therefore making one wonder how this language was at all related to Germanic Prussia.  JHK
:Proto-Indo European is a reconstruction of a language for which we have no written evidence.  Don't rely on it too much to prove anything. --MichaelTinkler
Um... I still think these tables are probably taken from a copyrighted source.  And I think they add little to the article.  If no one can provide a PD source for the tables, I'm removing them on 12 March. HK
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HJ et al.  
First, no one has provided evidence that the language tables are public domain.  I am therefore removing them.  They will be in the history if we need to restore them. 
Second, Tacitus didn't talk about the Aesti in his Agricola and Germania for the simple reason that there is no such book.  Helga seems to think that, because she has one edition of a book in English that combines the two, that this is the name of Tacitus' work.  It isn't.  The only mention is in the Germania.  I don't need to reiterate that Tacitus is hardly accurate.
Third, is anyone else bothered by the lack of logic in the following -- old Prussians spoke a Baltic (not Germanic) language.  Old Prussians were the original Prussians.  The area the Old Prussians inhabited is therefore German, because it has always been German.  
Just wondering. HK
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I intend to change the mention about influence of Old Prussian on Yidisch. It is ridiculous.
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This article can be so much more (or do we really know so little about it).  For example, any Bible translations?  Dictionaries?  Orthography standardized?  Native name for the language (this is usually put in the infobox)?  Any notable linguistic features?  Any state support for the language (courts, kingdoms)?  Literary achievements?  Influences on neighboring languages?  Any official banning of the language by decree?  Any residual mark on local Polish, Russian, nearby German dialects?  Estimated peak number of speakers?  Major controversies?  A-giau 08:41, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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message: There is no other language called "Prussian (language)" but this one. Why is it under the title "Old Prussian (language)"?
Peter Isotalo 02:00, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? Low Prussian was/is named under Prussian. --Vulpes vulpes 07:54, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prussian 

message: Anthony, why did you revert my removal of the link to the Meta page rejecting the proposal for an Old Prussian Wikipedia - and with rollback as if it were vandalism, no less? There is very little value in having that link in the External links section, as if it provided the reader with helpful information about Old Prussian, which it doesn't. +Angr 08:24, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert 

message: 1. It is stated that revived Prussian is spoken by 200 people. A handful of them is listed as users. What exactly merits them to be named? Have they published in that language? Do they teach it at universities?</br>
2. I  agree with the poster above that there does not seem to be a reason to call it "Old Prussian", since there is no following language. It seems to have existed and died out without developing successors. There is Low Prussian, yes, but that is a mere dialect of Low German and contrasts with East Prussian (High German dialect, not a successor of OP either) instead of Old Prussian. Revived Old Prussian is also, well, revived Old Prussian rather than just "Prussian" or New Prussian. So it would be nice to know why this naming convention exists. (From a global rather than from a Wiki viewpoint, I mean.)193.174.122.76 (talk) 18:18, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two things regarding this article 

message: AFAIK Slavic chrt, chart, khort (here 'ch' is as in 'loch') are related to German 'wikt:hurtig', so I guess this is one of factoids which are dubious in EB. Staszek Lem (talk) 04:59, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Who says they aren't? The only statement is that the word was further borrowed into the Baltic. 83.25.220.33 (talk) 22:41, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of 'curtis' 

message: New page Prusi. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:23, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  attention experts 

message: How big is this? Looks like too much prominence is given to some obscure and irrelevant movement. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 18:25, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revived Old Prussian 

message: The article says that it was written (or copied) on the boundary of 14th/15th century (i.e. circa 1400 AD) but the link included in the article claims that it was written c. 1300. This is a great difference. 128.214.145.20 (talk) 15:15, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  How old is Elbing vocabulary? 

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message: I doubt this will receive attention, but I would like to ask the credibility of it saying 18th century, it mentions the bubonic plague, as if it were ravaging like the 14th century. Just trying to check it. Schwiiz (talk) 03:00, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  18th Century 

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message: How do we know it had palatalized consonants? I'm curious, because I thought it didn't have soft consonants. IdkGoodName (talk) 09:03, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palatalized consonants