Koschneiderisch is a part of
East Low German East Pomeranian dialect of the
Low German language. This almost moribund dialect used to be spoken in the triangle between
Kashubia,
Tuchola Forest and
Krajna regions by catholic Germans resettled to the area from the
Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück by the
Teutonic Order State during its brief control of the area at the end the 14th century, who maintained their original culture (including clothing).
In or shortly after
World War II, the Koschneiderisch-speaking German inhabitants of the region largely fled or were
expelled to western
Germany. The dialect preserved many features of Westphalian dialect of
Middle Low German (spoken by the original pioneer founding settlers), itself heavily influenced by the
Middle Dutch. It has
palatalization
Palatalization may refer to:
*Palatalization (phonetics), the phonetic feature of palatal secondary articulation
*Palatalization (sound change)
Palatalization is a historical-linguistic sound change that results in a palatalized articulation ...
of the ''k''-sound, resulting in a sound similar to the ''ć''-sound of the
Polish language.
[''Die Orts- und Flurnamen der Koschneiderei'', Danziger Verlags-Gesellschaft, Danzig, 1926, p. 29] Koschneiderisch includes a limited number of
High German words.
It was among the varieties of the same part of East Pomeranian, that inter alia were spoken in
Pomerelia, up to North of
Czersk, South of
Starogard Gdański and Kałębie Lake.
[{{Cite book, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWVxnfaQAhIC&q=ostniederpreu%C3%9Fisch&pg=PA892, title = Dialektologie. 2. Halbband, isbn = 9783110203332, last1 = Besch, first1 = Werner, last2 = Knoop, first2 = Ulrich, last3 = Putschke, first3 = Wolfgang, last4 = Wiegand, first4 = Herbert E., date = 14 July 2008]
References
Low German
German dialects
Languages of Poland
Pomerania