Oblast) Most Pomerelian speakers were not Mennonites; although Mennonite Low German mainly descends from Pomerelian German dialect, also called West Prussian German dialect, it was an adopted language from the originally Dutch, Flemish and Frisian Mennonites that came to the Lower Weichsel or Vistula region, mainly the delta; however, today Mennonite Plautdietsch, a diaspora dialect or language, is practically the only surviving form of Pomerelian German or West Prussian German, because of that, in modern times "Plautdietsch" or "Pomerelian German" and "Mennonite Plautdietsch" are almost synonymal). It is a Pomerelian German diaspora dialect/language / West Prussian German diaspora dialect/language (in Germany, Kazakhstan and the Americas). It is one of the Mennonite Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German dialects (Dutch and Frisian substrate) (originally it was spoken by the Vistula delta Mennonites who came from the Low Countries in the 16th century, in the 18th century many migrated to the Russian Empire, to Novorossiya, in modern south Ukraine, however, at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, most of them migrated to the Americas, first to Northern America and later to Latin America, people that are called "Russian Mennonites" are their descendants, although they are not of Russian background) Mundart der Elbinger Höhe Mundart des Kürzungsgebiet(e)s Westkäslausch Ostkäslausch Natangisch-Bartisch Samlandic (included Königsberg, modern Kaliningrad) Memelisch (formerly spoken in the Memel region, modern Klaipėda, in Lithuania) Mundart des Ostgebietes (Dialect of the Eastern Lands) (formerly spoken in the eastern, northern and part of southern regions of East Prussia) part of East Prussian (not to be confused with Baltic Prussian or Old Prussian that is the substrate of Low Prussian German) (it was spoken in East Prussia, the true historical Prussia or Baltic Prussia dwelt by the Baltic Prussians before their conquest by the Teutonic Order and later Germanisation) (it included Königsberg, today's Kaliningrad, as its main centre; in modern times the region is divided between Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian enclave, in the north, and the Masuria region of northeastern Poland, in the south) Niederungisch Litauisch (Lithuanian German Prussian) (dialect spoken by assimilated Lithuanians, known as Prussian Lithuanians, German Prussian Lithuanians, or Small Lithuanians – Kleinlitauener, the Lietuvininkai in Lithuania Minor) (it had Lithuanian substrate) Anglo-Frisian languages (did not participate in the High German consonant shift) Anglic languages (dialect continuum) Old English (Anglo-Saxon) (Anglo-Saxon-Jute) (Anglisc / Anglisc sprǣc / Ængliṡc / Ænglisc sprǣċ – Seaxisc / Seaxisc sprǣc – Ēotisc /