Dr. Letas  PALMAITIS
                                Balticist & Orientalist, Ethnologist

                            Cell. ph. +370 67746906,  e-mail:  [email protected]

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  1. Introduction
  2. Positions and grants
  3. Research work:  Orientalistics,  Indoeuropean and general linguistics,       
                                          Indoeuropean and Baltic linguistics,  Prussology  
  4. Life programme: N.-Baltic boundary,  toponyms,  Rurik,  EXPERIMENTAL PRUSSIAN,
                                          Documented novel about Ingermanland
  5. Support

The life programme is calculated for possible last 10 years in which the daughters must be brought up and the main planned works finalised demanding almost all energy and time.
       
Experimental Prussology:
      This work was started as a hobby, however later on developed into a sort of practical verification of theoretic reconstructions using growing interest in the revival of Old Prussian by young people living in the region of Kaliningrad and Varmia-Mazurland today.

First attempts to revive Prussian were holiday greeting in private correspondence with Vladimir Toporov, Moscow. Then together with him the idea was born and a memorandum published From the reconstruction of Old Prussian toward the recreation of Neo-Prussian (1983). The practical basis for such work is a vivid interest to Baltic Prussians, their language and culture among some former inhabitants of pre-war East-/ West-Prussia, in Lithuania and Latvia, as well as among modern inhabitants of this territory, in Poland and in the region of Kaliningrad, not to say about various political projects for the latter. This was a good stimulus to create first a Club PRUSA in Lithuania in 1988, then – filias of this Club in neighbouring countries, uniting these filias into non-formal Brotherhood in 1990. First attempts of restored and modernized Prussian Vocabulary and Grammar on the basis of Samlandian have been successfully carried out. An International Commission of scholars must be set up to verify the creation of the Vocabulary and texts. Now the single danger for Modern Prussian are spontaneous attempts of many different persons, usually dilettantes, to create their own Prussian.

Work planned for the nearest future embraces further re-creation of the Vocabulary on strict principles, as well as compounding text-books, translating and writing fiction in New Prussian, publishing Prussian calendars, preparing successors for this work - all in 5 languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, German, Polish, Russian + English (the latter is desirable for world-wide internet actions). For practical needs of all persons and groups trying to restore the language and ethnicity of the Baltic Prussians all over the world. A good and standing financing is necessary.

To the newest achievements in this field belong:

Dictionary of Revived Prussian: Experimental dictionary, 2nd ed., ca. 7000 words. / Bibliotheca Clossiana, Lingua Borussica nova,
IIa: Prussian - Lithuanian - Prussian.
IIb: Prussian - Latvian - Prussian.
IIc: Prusian - German - Prussian.
IId: Prussian - Polish - Prussian.
IIe: Prussian - English - Prussian.
IIf: Prussian - Russian - Prussian.
Lithuanians' World Center for Advancement of Culture. Science and Education. Kaunas 2007.

Today the volume of the Dictionary exceeds 10000 words. Visit a constantly updated electronic version of Modern Prussian in six languages.

Prussian Dictionary