Editing Old Prussian language (section)

===Revitalization===
[[File:Mėnuo Juodaragio XXI Kellan.jpg|thumb|The Prussian post-folk band Kellan performing at the Baltic culture festival [[Mėnuo Juodaragis]] in Lithuania]]
In the 1980s, linguists [[Vladimir Toporov]] and [[Vytautas Mažiulis]] started reconstructing the Prussian language as a scientific project and a humanitarian gesture. Some enthusiasts thereafter began to [[Language revitalization|revive]] the language based on their reconstruction.{{r|Szatkowski|pages=3–4}}

Most current speakers live in Germany, Poland, Lithuania and [[Kaliningrad Oblast|Kaliningrad]] (Russia). Additionally, a few children are native in Revived Prussian.{{r|Szatkowski|pages=4–8}}<ref name="culture.pl">{{cite web|url=http://culture.pl/en/article/little-prince-published-in-prussian|title=Little Prince Published in Prussian|website=Culture.pl|publisher=Adam Mickiewicz Institute|date=17 February 2015|access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>

Today, there are websites, online dictionaries, learning apps and games for Revived Prussian, and one children's book – [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]'s ''[[The Little Prince]]'' – was translated into Revived Prussian by Piotr Szatkowski (Pīteris Šātkis) and published by the Prusaspirā Society in 2015.{{r|Szatkowski|pages=4–7}}{{r|culture.pl}} Moreover, some bands use Revived Prussian, most notably in the Kaliningrad Oblast by the bands [[Romowe Rikoito]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=ROMOWE RIKOITO – Undēina|url=http://www.dangus.net/releases/albumai/043_RomoweRikoito.htm|access-date=29 August 2014|publisher=Dangus|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324135735/http://www.dangus.net/releases/albumai/043_RomoweRikoito.htm|archive-date=24 March 2015}}</ref> Kellan<ref>{{Cite web|author-first=А.|author-last=Ржевский|title=Илья Левашов: То, что мы поем — это о нашей земле|url=https://day-off39.ru/novosti-kaliningrada-i-oblasti/6565-ilya-levashov|access-date=11 October 2020|language=ru|website=Выходной|date=12 December 2018 }}</ref> and Āustras Laīwan, as well as in Lithuania by [[Kūlgrinda (band)|Kūlgrinda]] on their 2005 album {{Lang|lt|Prūsų Giesmės}} ('Prussian Hymns'),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Senoji prūsų kalba atgimsta naujausioje grupės KŪLGRINDA plokštelėje|url=http://www.dangus.net/news/nauja418.htm|access-date=29 August 2014|publisher=Dangus|language=lt|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910040212/http://www.dangus.net/news/nauja418.htm|archive-date=10 September 2012}}</ref> and Latvia by Rasa Ensemble in 1988<ref>{{cite book|last=Smidchens|first=Guntis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_TfOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA12|title=The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution|publisher=[[University of Washington Press]]|year=2014| isbn=978-0-295-99310-2|page=12}}</ref> and [[Valdis Muktupāvels]] in his 2005 [[oratorio]] "Pārcēlātājs Pontifex" featuring several parts sung in Prussian.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oratorio "Pārcēlātājs Pontifex"|url=http://donelaitis.vdu.lt/prussian/oratorio.htm|website=Prussian Reconstructions – Ethonology|first=Mykolas Letas|last=Palmaitis|access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>