High Prussian dialect

High Prussian
High Prussian
Hochpreußisch (Breslau(i)sch / Oberländisch)
Native to	Poland, Germany
Region	historically Ermland, but also parts of West and East Prussia; today moribund and spoken among some Heimatvertriebene in Germany that were expelled after 1945
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Central German East Central German High Prussian; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	high1271

High Prussian (German: Hochpreußisch) is a group of East Central German dialects in former East Prussia, in present-day Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (Poland) and Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia). High Prussian developed in the 13th–15th centuries, brought in by German settlers mainly from Silesia and Thuringia, and was influenced by the Baltic Old Prussian language.

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