Mundart des Ostgebietes

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The Mundart des Ostgebiets is a subdialect of Low Prussian, a dialect of Low German. It was spoken around Insterburg (now Chernyakhovsk, Russia), the Memel (Klaipėda, Lithuania), and Tilsit (Sovyetsk, Russia). Many speakers of this subdialect were Prussian-Lithuanians.