The Sound of the Baltic Prussian language (Numbers, Phrases & Sample Texts)

[@anothing12]

I can hear a lot of similarities with Latvian, Lithuanian, and German, even some Slavic

[@MrKaryerist]

It’s because Prussian was the closest version to what indo-European ancestors spoke before they split into Germanic, Baltic and Slavic tribes.

[@mvp_klints]

I'd say that it also sounds quite similar to Latgalian.

[@justukaslietuvis]

@@MrKaryerist heard there was a pretty dumb method they used in reconstruction when, for some reason, if a word had a cognate in German, Russian, Lithuanian and Latvian - they make a word in Prussian

[@youtobebrosyt2127]

Yes especaly when he says 3 (trīs) Its the same in latvian

[@level442FM]

Makes perfect sense. The language belongs to the Balto-Slavic branch

[@thisisemchii]

to a latvian, this sounds straight up like lithuanian, i assume this was read by lithuanian people, because the pronounciation of words and letters are not as sharp as latvian pronounciation, it has a wavyness to it

[@J-C4]

Im lithuanian and i can read it perfectly prussian but when i read Latvian Its easy for me to

[@Crimson19977]

As latvian, this is so beautiful language, I hope they revive it!

[@vilmamy]

I am Lithuanian and understood more words here than in Latvian. When the child speaks, it seems as if a Lithuanian would speak a foreign language with a strong Lithuanian accent. I would not be surprised if the people speaking here are Lithuanians.

[@mal4ick]

Don't forget about Latgalian, which is much more ancient than Latvian language which has been built on German base and alphabet. In fact, Latvian language comes from Latgalian as well as the name of nation itself. And again Žemaičiai (samite) and Latgalians can easy communicate with each other.

[@Adhjie]

@@mal4ick so thats baltic right? diff from bulgarian as a base of OCS or general slavic

[@vacyskollvacyskoll4025]

@@mal4ick it's not true. Latvians can't understand samogitian :)

[@mal4ick]

@@vacyskollvacyskoll4025 I never said that Latvians can, I said Latgalians can.

[@romania1918]

I hate when languages are extinct

[@meysamghahremaninejad6809]

Me too when the last native speaker of a language dies a chapter of human heritage falls into oblivion! it's sad.

[@alexisroman1122]

@@meysamghahremaninejad6809 its sad really

[@_zdencka9644]

This language is extinct?

[@ermin2248]

@@_zdencka9644 it is extinct

[@kraisonpetrovdo7891]

Hebrew was extinct too.It depends on people whether they really love this language or not !

[@BalitskyMedia]

Interesting study made when people stay isolated in the arctic for 6 months during coldest darkest period. There were recordings of them speaking prior to their isolation, and recordings of them speaking after 6 months. Their accents seem to adapt to the entire group. So they all begin to speak like each other. Not surprising how quickly languages form, change and adapt depending on where your ancestors moved. It’s such changes can happen in 6 months of one lifetime, then definitely if a whole new generation is born in a new part of the world

[@kmlllk]

As a Latvia, I understand approximately 50% of it

[@alenicamoravia2944]

I am German and speak a little little bit of Lithuanian. This sounds like Lithuanian with some German influences, which it probably is.

[@endex190]

Im from Lithuania and i could understand line 50% of the worlds, its so cool!

[@Szylek]

As polish speaker, I can see, that there is the small conection of baltic and slavic languages

[@buarath9]

It's a Baltic language and the most conservative, how doesn't sound Baltic? 😂

[@Ferssedi]

It’s like if Lithuanian and German language had a baby.

[@ucja1663]

I'm speaking german fluently, and sorry but it doesn't sounds like a germanic language to me, it sounds baltic but not german, but that's only my opinion

[@MegaJellyNelly]

@@ucja1663 I'm studying dutch and it sounds very germanic to me

[@sabahdzekonskaite8026]

Yess hahaha

[@R.Ratkus]

@@ucja1663 it has the same number of cases as german, a lot of germanic influence, and the similarities are not easy to detect, for example the greeting Kaīls is derived from germanic heil greeting, but yeah in general it's a baltic language with a lot of longtime cultural contact with germanics ranging from goths to germans

[@caesarzeppeli5415]

@@ucja1663 It's a Baltic language with Germanic influence. That's my point.

[@domasa732]

I'm Lithuanian and this sounds like Germany and Lithuanian languages combined.

[@davemk9]

Didn't think Prussian would be this similar to Lithuanian

[@gentlebabarian]

It's a baltic language sadly long gone!

[@latgalitis8305]

@@gentlebabarian Actually, it isn't extinct! There are newspapers, and even books in Prussian! Recently it's being revived, as well as the Prussian culture!

[@adamwnt]

the original prussian yes, then in "modern" prussia german language was more and more dominant overtime

[@thorstenmarquardt7274]

Hopefully one day Prussia will be an independent country again

[@Moneyaddthenmultiply]

This sounds like Proto-Indo-European more than any other language on this channel

[@scronic9652]

Спасибо большое за ролик! Привет из Кролевца (Калининграда)! Верю, что однажды наши люди вспомнят, на какой земле они живут, и начнут возрождать благодоря науке и инновациям былое, утраченное.

[@joshuabradshaw9120]

I hear both low German and Slavic influence on the Prussian pronunciation. Very interesting.

[@adge5182]

Love it!

[@Teheimar]

Realöy cool. Would love to se some courses in Prussian. At least the basics.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Considering that most of the Prussian words used here probably came from a vocabulary published in the 15th or 16th century, I suspect a lot of loan words from Medieval German. The Prussians by this date had already been a subject people for several centuries.

[@buarath9]

Thinking that some groups in real life speak with each other in Prussian is absolutely awesome! From this decade we can say that Prussian is the alive Indoeuropean language nearest to protolanguage instead of Lithuanian 👀

[@neja4906]

1,3,7,8,9 and 10 sounded really similar to Latvian.

[@pauliusradzisauskas9593]

So this is how Lithuanian sounds for foreigners 😃 interesting

[@lvzane]

This should have been read by a latvian too. With this pronunciation it sounds stright up Lithuanian even though most of these phrases seem very similar to Latvian.

[@slifer0081]

As a lithuanian i understand more than i understand latvian

[@beefcakepantiehoes]

This language is crazy. You can hear latin, ancient greek, even germanic sounding words. Truly a time capsule language! Probably sounds the most like what Western PIE would’ve sounded like.

[@SB-fw3yr]

I am from Russia and some words are very similar to Slavic. For example, good afternoon - labban deinan. deinan like in russian: день /den' (day). Other Slavic also have the word "den": dan (day) in Serbo-Croatian etc. To see - видеть (videt') in Russian. On the video "long time no see" - warai ni beimai widawusis si. Ni widawusis - "ne videlis' " in Russian! We also have a form like: vidat' (to see). Majs emmens (my name) - moje imya in Russian Iz (from) - из/iz in Russian As (I) - "Я/ja" in Russian, BUT "Аз/az" is an archaic word for "I" (Borrowing from Church Slavonic). In Bulgarian even today "I" is "Аз/az" Ty (you) - ты/ty in Russian Meddy (honey) - мёд / myod in Russian But it seems to me that the language already had a strong german influence (ainas); (dinkum) etc

[@Ragdollseerwxyzk0]

Is it still possible to revive that language?

[@julijaknaz5809]

Someone is reviving it already I think

[@christianjohnson8642]

I think there is a video of a kid who a native speaker

[@G0TIMAN]

They are reviving it in Poland.

[@jamesbancroft2467]

@@G0TIMAN interesting considering that no one there is descended from the people who spoke it...

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

@@jamesbancroft2467 Oh, but some Poles do have Prussian ancestry... Even some Polish nobles houses were of Prussian descent.

[@brip799]

This is so cool. Thanks for sharing

[@UtamagUta]

Memel is in Lithuania, Klaipėda nowadays. Funny easter egg

[@keepup32323]

Memel is the name of the river near Königsberg in east Prussia.

[@ezrah.2650]

@@keepup32323 Yes, Memel is the German name for that river. However, it's also the name of a city in East Prussia, modern day Lithuania, which is called Klaipėda nowadays. The latter is the Memel that they refer to in the video, as well as OP's comment.

[@exlibrisas]

@@ezrah.2650 Reading this comment section while lying in bed in Memel (Klaipėda).

[@fidenemini111]

@@ezrah.2650 It's not a German but Curonian word.

[@hz7337]

Sounds very Similar to Lithuanian 🇱🇹

[@Waflis-420]

As a Lithuanian, i strangely understood almost everything, even more than i understand latvian language :D

[@XANANAZ]

This is soooo cute!

[@rey.del.guac.7]

enimmumni ast sein ten erzinaatun si :)

[@Regozzo]

Is it any source to learn prussian and is there somethink about old prussian language ? Plz recomend

[@vaivanat]

As a lithuanian I almost understand what are they talking :)

[@nesbistrampol]

I see a lot of similarities with Sudovian, In a way, sudovian seems to be a more "lithuanisized" prussian language, with grammar similar to old lithuanian, but much of the dictionary and pronunciation similar to prussian. It is actually debated if yotvingian/sudovian language even was a language, or just an eastern dialect of prussian, nevertheless, In my opinion it was it's own language, But with the intermixing that happened when the lithuanian state emerged, and the northern crusades got really brutal, the people fled to lithuania/ who were already in lithuania influenced the language greatly.

[@kutaykalender2321]

From the 2nd minute there is a boy who speaks Prussian. Are there any children who know this language?

[@sowjansko-noworosiiskyimap3234]

Вайшнорська мова вона до групи слов'янських чи балтійських мов. з тутейшими впливами

[@andreasghb8074]

Yes, sounds like a cross between Latvian and Nordic

[@dioriteghast2869]

Remember when sudovian was still a video >:(

[@josephtangredi6728]

Seems like a mix of Latvian and Germanic/Scandinavian.

[@CelabroSpace]

As an Estonian I can't understand or make connections with other languages with this language

[@valt8025]

This language is not dead it has 50 speakers

[@julijaknaz5809]

The language is revived but the baltic prussian has a long way to go before being fully revived, it has to get atleast 1,000 speakers of the language if not more,or else it would get extinct again.

[@celty5858]

Oh my god. It kind of reminds me of Gothic.

[@jadencollinmurata8224]

Kāigi tū assei bilīts?

[@lukepaul6256]

It literally sounds like lithuanian mixed with german and as a lithuanian i can understand this better than latvian…

[@markperez8177]

German + Polish + Russian + Lithuanian + Latvian + Estonian = This:

[@andrzejdobrowolski9523]

Can Lithuanians and Latvians understand this?

[@enderaria2313]

It has some common words with Persian

[@TheSandersonSisters-j6e]

Im speak prussian 😌☝🏼

[@D.S_Productions]

Prūsai

[@jingjong5675]

Sounds like a weird mixture of Slavic and Gothic (East Germanic).

[@richardconstance2408]

I think in classical antiquity, Pruzzians had very close contact to eastern germanic tribes and in the early medieval period to Vikings. This would be an explanation for many similarities in words. Ancient roman and greek autors tell, that Baltic (Pruzzians) in antiquity adopted the german (suebian) culture, only their language would have more similarities to celtic language. As an result to their germanic traditions, it was easy for them to adopt to german culture in modern times and "become" german speaking East Prussians. So the "german" East Prussians of modern times are surely descendants of baltic Pruzzians.

[@Madara-zj2qh]

the men's voices sound like Lithuanian, close to Latvian. But the little girl's voice sound very different to me, like they speak different languages

[@vykintasjocys6401]

For me as lithuanian it sounds little german

[@stephanobarbosa5805]

Preußische ist schön

[@ioniamapping8874]

Maybe lets not kill it ok?

[@ВаряВасильева-ь2б]

It sounds like Latvian

[@Spoontamer4]

so this is what 150% discipline sounds like! :D

[@sowjansko-noworosiiskyimap3234]

Прусська мова

[@jeffondrement160]

Sounds like Gothic!

[@palamaro1603]

Analyzing it word for word you truly begin to understand how similar it is to Slavic languages. If the words were written in a more phonetic way it would be even more noticeable.

[@diana-cy4kj]

Similar to Lithuanian and Latvian.

[@_alenko_9815]

Sounds like Gothic

[@keepup32323]

AINS means ONE in both. I wonder If both peoples ever made this connection sometime in the past.

[@androtchitchinadze3450]

We must make a Prussian independent State out of Kaliningrad, Parts of Lithuania and Poland. And make this the official language.

[@Negostrike]

"PRuuUUUuuusiskan" Sounds like a mix of Swahili and Udege

[@ducoh2093]

If the Prussian language was more balto slavic, does that also mean the prussians were ethnically not really german?

[@brettanthonypalmer2956]

They were Balts, originally direct blood brothers of Lithuanians, Latvians. Over the centuries the vast majority became ethnically mixed with slavs, Teutons which was the direct results of relentless Catholic Conquest (Vatican). much in the same way the Pomeranians were ""Germanized"" through Crusades ... We do still exist in blood but nobody in any ""Government"" wants to deal with it for obvious reasons of Sovereignty.

[@AmericanCalliope]

I did a DNA on Ansestry and got Germany, Lithuania, Baltics, Basque and Russia. The site doesn't have Prussian 😭.

[@FPRNIndonesia45]

Yea mostly they are not but culturally germans

[@tomru2003]

I am German and to me it sonst like a German who speak Lithuanian.

[@motts8084]

that "ains" and "dinkun" threw me off

[@handsafter]

Wielbark culture, isn't it ?

[@aivarszonbergs6190]

Me bothers The Lithuanian accent when speaking the text.

[@rhainaweissehexe3899]

My Family on my Mother's side is from N.East Prussia. This sounds do different from German. This sounds Slavic/Russian.

[@lolikususs]

Old prussians didnt speak german but Baltic Prussian language. Germans assimilated and killed them then took there name..

[@lewis8325]

neat! my great grandmother was a German speaker born in Königsberg

[@Zjbuber]

It sounds simillar to Lithuanian for me, and very simillar accent

[@lukas54cz71]

Bruh, Baltic Prussia should be restored.

[@miglius1992]

Sound like early German 😆 and this supposed to be also early Russian. Thought its baltic words that are being used. Some understand some idk.

[@frosty2579]

It has nothing to do with Russian

[@user-gz3pn4in9e]

@@frosty2579 Balto-Slavic group.

[@miglius1992]

How to get Attention of ruski blet 🤣 vse ida nauhuj 😂😛

[@antanassmetona4054]

@@user-gz3pn4in9e that's just a theory in linguistics, not an actual real proven "language group". Balts have nothing to do with Slavs aside from Slavs taking parts of our culture and language and developing it as theirs.

[@HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

@@antanassmetona4054 The Baltic and Slavic branches of Indo-European are closely related. There is absolutely no doubt that the Indo-European dialects that would evolve into Baltic and Slavic formed a dialect continuum at one point. Slavs didn't "take" part of "your" language, Balts and Slavs share a common heritage that they've been developing in different directions over time.

[@sowjansko-noworosiiskyimap3234]

А де Вайшнорська мова!

[@robertferguson851]

It sounds like cross between Swedish and Russian.

[@andersbogston6632]

It doesn’t sound like Swedish at all

[@jean-pierredevent970]

@@andersbogston6632 I can understand why he thinks that. It's something in the melody, like starting neutral and then immediately raising the voice in pitch, like we would do in Dutch when asking something. But I have no knowledge of Russian neither Scandinavian language. But you had that old youth serie about Pelle and bootsman

[@zoso382]

I am from Lithuania . it's sounds like mix of Lithuania and Latvian.

[@rolandasvaitkevicius8365]

Kokie čia latviai kalba!?

[@EABRacing8229]

Similar to Slovenian and especially old Slovenian

[@techgregory5253]

Sounds like German, Lithuanian and Polish

[@ermin2248]

I am Polish, and I can't understand a single word

[@damian4926]

I think what he meant was that it sounds like German + Lithuanian spoken with Polish accent.

[@terry6729]

It sounds like a strange mix of Latin and German with a hint of Aztec.

[@richardconstance2408]

P.S. In Antiquity ancient Romans and Greeks called the Baltic sea the "Suebian Sea", what means, that those tribe was dominating the whole region. So those germans also dominated the Baltic tribes culturally.

[@forgottenmusic1]

Suebians were living in what is the coastal area of modern Germany (and inlands), and that was the first coastal area the Romans got to know, and had most of their contacts with. The name spread the same way as Germany is still Allemagne for France, as the Alemanni tribe was living next to France.

[@Adhjie]

@@forgottenmusic1 if were talking about this prussian that surely clashed with eastern gothic then I suppose the romans actually closer to prussian or they just blitzkrieg west? I remember the one to rule after caesar got sent to the east then died mysteriously

[@moshpitjo1146]

Sounds like Russian+Latin

[@МичилДегтярев-л3е]

Sounds more latvian and lithuanian. They are baltic not slavic but some studies said they closest relatives if i not wrong. Baltic languages are quite different

[@Sclavorum]

@@МичилДегтярев-л3е балто-славянские языки, ербо

[@RealYunoCS]

@@МичилДегтярев-л3е sounds like Lithuanian-german mixture

[@irinakolcheva5212]

@@МичилДегтярев-л3е I agree. I`m Slavic language native speaker and I can`t understand anything in Baltic languages. :)

[@Orc-icide]

I'm guessing you speak neither Russian nor Latin. THIS SOUNDS NOTHING LIKE EITHER. BALTIC LANGUAGES ARE NO WHERE NEAR SOUNDING RUSSIAN

[@germgoblin5313]

Latvian "Ka tev iet"

[@uhhhscizo6531]

very strange

[@2010Edgars]

German + lithuanian = prussian.

[@Salem_Rabbit]

So this is what Frederick the great used to speak.

[@namelesssurnameless4158]

I hope that this comment of yours is a joke

[@ermin2248]

Prussians were baltic people, brothers of Lithuanians and Latvians. They were also very strongly pagans, and that's why Pope ordered crusade on them. Prussia was conquered by Germans. Many German settlers came to Prussia, plus actual Prussians were heavy germanised or killed if they didn't want to became German. Germans entirely destroyed that nation. And Germans there started calling themselves Prussian (but they aren't). Fredrick was German and spoke German.

[@Salem_Rabbit]

@@ermin2248 Thanks, I was not aware of that.

[@Adhjie]

@@ermin2248 teutonics I supposed same as huns I guess and any philippines texts since they really pressed gospel over gold and glory

[@UtamagUta]

@@ermin2248 That, also royals were "above" peasant language in general. F.e. russian tzar court spoke french, while lithuanian royalty spoke old ruthenian and later polish.

[@safi-sultanbeyli7761]

The language sounds cold

[@supahentertainment4225]

Ok history plot twist (my humble opinion) : prussians is actually ancient germanic tribe Lithuanians = nordic + prussians + russian Just think about it, why do germans decide to take the Prussia name? Germans conquered prussia so why the fck take the name? Isnt it weird? Ok exmaple: russia conquered lithuania and other countrys, did she took the name? 😅 - no So why germans, why? It’s kinda obvious that west germans had sentimentality for prussians in the olden days Its just my theory, maybe i’m wrong i dont know