Hamburg German, also known as Hamburg dialect or Hamburger dialect (natively , german: Hamburger Platt), is a group of
Northern Low Saxon varieties spoken in
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
,
Germany
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. Occasionally, the term ''Hamburgisch'' is also used for Hamburg ''
Missingsch
() is a type of Low-German-coloured dialect or sociolect of German. It is characterised by Low-German-type structures and the presence of numerous calques and loanwords from Low German in High German.
Description
A more technical definition ...
'', a variety of
standard German
Standard High German (SHG), less precisely Standard German or High German (not to be confused with High German dialects, more precisely Upper German dialects) (german: Standardhochdeutsch, , or, in Switzerland, ), is the standardized variety ...
with Low Saxon substrates. These are urban dialects that have absorbed numerous
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ...
and
Dutch loanwords, for instance ''Törn'' 'trip' (< ''turn'') and ''suutje'' 'gently' (< Dutch ).
Hamburg's name is pronounced in these dialects, with a "ch" similar to that in the standard German words ''ich'' or ''Milch''. Typical of the Hamburg dialects and other Lower Elbe dialects is the pronunciation (and ''eu'' spelling) for the diphthong (written ''öö'', ''öh'' or ''ö''), e.g.:
However, as in most other
Low Saxon
Low Saxon, also known as West Low German ( nds, Nedersassisch, Nedersaksies; nl, Nedersaksisch) are a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by parts of ...
(Low German) dialects, the long monophthong is pronounced (as in French ''peu''), for instance ''Kööm'' ~ ''Kœm'' 'caraway'.
The Low Saxon language in Hamburg is divided in several subdialects:
*Finkwarder Platt
*Olwarder Platt
*Veerlanner Platt (with many sub-sub-dialects)
*Barmbeker Platt.
The
Hamborger Veermaster De Hamborger Veermaster (Standard German: Der Hamburger Viermaster, English: Hamburg's four-master) is a famous sea shanty sung in Low German, presumably first published between 1850 and 1890. It is partly in English, an adaptation of the shanty "T ...
is a famous sea shanty sung in the regional dialect.
Sources
*
External links
*http://www.plattmaster.de
Culture in Hamburg
Northern Low Saxon dialects
German dialects
Languages of Germany
City colloquials
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