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Eastern Low Prussian (German: Mundart des Ostgebietes) is a subdialect of Low Prussian that was spoken around Angerburg (now Węgorzewo, Poland), Insterburg (Chernyakhovsk, Russia), Memelland (Klaipėda County, Lithuania), and Tilsit (Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) in the eastern territories of East Prussia in the former eastern territories of Germany.[1] Many speakers of this subdialect were Prussian Lithuanians.

Eastern Low Prussian
German: Mundart des Ostgebietes
Native to	Lithuania, Poland, Russia (formerly Germany)
Region	East Prussia
Ethnicity	Germans, Prussian Lithuanians
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Low German East Low German Low Prussian Eastern Low Prussian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Geography

Eastern Low Prussian had borders with Ostsamländisch, Natangian, and Standard German.[2] Lithuanian language was spoken within its area.[2]

Phonology

In difference to varieties to the West, it had no vocalization of /r/.[3] Its alveolar /r/ probably counts among its influences from Lithuanian.[4] Werdersch has an alveolar as well.[5]

Eastern Low Prussian has a greater phonetic affinity to Standard German than Samlandic.[3] The /ai/ of Samlandic is given as /ei/ with long /e/.[3]

It has features common with Nehrungisch.[6] It has major High German influence, a Lithuanian substrate, even numerous words having undergone High German consonant shift.[1] High German influence is, though not exclusively, by Salzburg Protestants.[1]

It has dorx for High German durch, English through.[5]

Grammar

There was a diminutive ending -l around Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast (Gumbinnen), explained by Upper German influence.[4]

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