Social:Eastern Low Prussian
| Eastern Low Prussian | |
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| German: Mundart des Ostgebietes | |
| Native to | Lithuania, Poland , Russia (formerly Germany) |
| Region | East Prussia |
| Ethnicity | Germans, Prussian Lithuanians |
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Eastern Low Prussian (German: Mundart des Ostgebietes, lit. dialect of the Eastern territory) is a subdialect of Low Prussian that was spoken around Angerburg (now Węgorzewo, Poland ), Insterburg (Chernyakhovsk, Russia ), Memelland (Klaipėda County, Lithuania), and Tilsit (Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia ) in the eastern territories of East Prussia in the former eastern territories of Germany.[1] Many speakers of this subdialect were Prussian Lithuanians.
Geography
Eastern Low Prussian had borders with Ostsamländisch, Natangian, and Standard German.[2] Lithuanian language was spoken within its area.[2]
Phonology
In difference to varieties to the West, it had no vocalization of /r/.[3] Its alveolar /r/ probably counts among its influences from Lithuanian.[4] Werdersch has an alveolar as well.[5]
Eastern Low Prussian has a greater phonetic affinity to Standard German than Samlandic.[3] The /ai/ of Samlandic is given as /ei/ with long /e/.[3]
It has features common with Nehrungisch.[6] It has major High German influence, a Lithuanian substrate, even numerous words having undergone High German consonant shift.[1] High German influence is, though not exclusively, by Salzburg Protestants.[1]
It has dorx (with the ach-Laut) for High German durch, English through.[5]
Grammar
There was a diminutive ending -l around Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast (Gumbinnen), explained by Upper German influence.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Besch et al. (2008), p. 892.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Poschenrieder (1995), p. 130.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ziesemer (1924), p. 128.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ziesemer (1924), p. 129.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ziesemer (1924), p. 133.
- ↑ Mitzka (1968), p. 209.
Bibliography
- Besch, Werner; Knoop, Ulrich; Putschke, Wolfgang; Wiegand, Herbert E. (14 July 2008) (in German). Dialektologie: Ein handbuch zur deutschen und allemeinen Dialektforschung. 2 (Halbband ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 892. ISBN 978-3-11-020333-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=tWVxnfaQAhIC&dq=ostniederpreußisch&pg=PA892.
- Mitzka, Walther (1968). Kleine Schriften. Walter de Gruyter & Co.. p. 209.
- Poschenrieder, Thorwald (1995), "Deutsch und baltischsprachige Preußen des Memellandes", in Von Gertrud Bense, Herausgegeben; Kozianka, Maria; Meinhold, Gottfried (in German), Deutsch-litauische Kulturbeziehungen: Kolloquium zu Ehren von August Schleicher, Collegium Europaeum Jenense, University of Jena, p. 130, http://www.tausendschoen-verlag.de/PDF/Memelland.pdf
- Ziesemer, Walther (1924) (in German). Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Breslau: Ferdinand Hirt. pp. 128–129, 133.
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