DICTIONARY OF REVIVED PRUSSIAN:

If the language was extinct in the 16 th c., as alleged, what would have been the
point of translating M. Luther’s Enchiridion into it in 1561? There are references
indicating that Old Prussian was still spoken at the end of the 17 th c. 1
The spread of the name Prussia, as well as a multicultural history of this Baltic
land, rich with legends and archaic folk-lore, maintained local and international interest
in Baltic Prussians throughout the centuries. In the 1 st half of the 20 th c. pan-Baltic
ideas appeared, along with parallel attempts to revive Old Prussian on the basis of
attested monuments. This was hindered by the official German state patriotism of
the Nazis but after 1945 all autochthons became victims of the genocide and total
deportation. In spite of such unfavorable development, the Prussian romanticism
became noticeable in the last quarter of the 20 th c., but it gets organized forms
nowadays.
The first Ethnic Community of Baltic Prussians has been officially registered
in Lithuania in 2001. Representatives of Baltic Prussians in Germany are trying to
acquire rights of a minority there. The Internet makes it possible to find persons,
who regard themselves as Baltic Prussians, in variuos parts of the world. The task
emerges to unite dispersed Prussians at least in one virtual world community.
At the same time our task is to recover Old Prussian as New Prussian for the
needs of all possible Prussian communities. The new situation in Europe encourages
Prussians to hope to participate in further development of part of their native land in
the region of Kaliningrad, where a Prussian settlement can be created as a World
Center for all Prussians. This Center may help current inhabitants of the region to
solve the question of their identity, so urgent for them today, as well as to give back
to the land its authentic face and thus to integrate all stages of its history. New
Prussian must become instrument in rebuilding the mental and cultural grounds for
the Prussian ethnic group by creating the Basic Stock of native literature, recoding it
into Prussian from the historical local languages, namely, German, Lithuanian and
Polish. In this way, the national cultural memory will be restored.
The New Prussian language, able to fulfil this task, must be a high-level
falsification representing not only the language known since the 16 th c. but also its
missing period up to the present, seemingly as if Ideal Prussians have always spoken
it during all their history. These Ideal Prussians may be called New Prussians who
1 Gerullis G. Zur Beurteilung des altpreussischen Enchiridions. / Streitberg Festgabe. Leipzig
1924, p. 100; Trautmann R. Die altpreussischen Sprachdenkmäler. Göttingen 1910, p. VIII.
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