Were the original Prussians killed off by the Teutonic Order?

Question

What was the original Baltic PRussian language like?

Answer 1

The Teutonic Order certaily killed a lot of them in The Northern Crusades (the Prussians along with other people in the East Baltic and inland areas to the east were pagan) but the language did continue to survive until the late 17th or early 18th century.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=prg

The Language was indeed a baltic language related to Lithuanian and Estonian.

Prussia lay outside the Holy Roman Empire and the later state we know as the Kingdom of Prussia only came about after the area was taken over by Brandenburg in 1618. The combined state came to be called the Kingdom of Prussia in 1688 because the ruling family was prevented from calling it the Kingdom of Brandenburg due to the fact that Brandenburg lay inside the boundaries of The Holy Roman Empire.

Answer 2

The Prus, or Prusians, were a Baltic people, their language was similar to Lithuanian and Latvian.
The Teutonic knights exterminated the Prus by 1400.

Answer 3

These Germans simply lived in the territory of Prussia which was part of the Holy Roman Empire in the middle ages and it separated. You walk by descendents of Prussians everyday and they are alive in well in their home country (Germany). The problems with Prussia and other German kingdoms are akin to what we see in Bosnia.

Answer 4

Short of.
The Germans "Germanazied" the old Prussia and from then it became a famous German kingdom.