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Westkäslausch
Westkäslausch was a Low Prussian dialect spoken in East Prussia, Germany (now Poland). It has features of Eastphalian, Westphalian and East Pomeranian dialect. Geography Westkäslausch used to have borders to Natangian, Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets and Breslausch (a High Prussian dialect).Thorwald Poschenrieder, ''Deutsch- und baltischsprachige Preußen des Memellandes'', in: ''Collegium Europaeum Jenense an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Deutsch-litauische Kulturbeziehungen: Kolloquium zu Ehren von August Schleicher an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena vom 19. bis 20. Mai 1994. Herausgegeben von Gertrud Bense, Maria Kozianka, Gottfried Meinhold. Ausgabe 1995'', Jena, 1995, p. 109–150 Westkäslausch was spoken in an area having Mehlsack as a kind of midpoint. Westkäslausch does not have a border to Ostkäslausch. Phonology It has ''d'' between vowels as ''r''. Diphthongization seen in Natangian Natangian () was a Low Prussian dialect, Low Prussi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundart Des Kürzungsgebiets
The Kürzungsgebietsmundart (spoken in the ''Haffgebiet'' or ''Kürzungsgebiet am Haff'') is a subdialect of Low Prussian, part of Low German, spoken in today's Poland. In 1918, it was spoken in East Prussia and West Prussia in their respective then borders.Thorwald Poschenrieder, ''Deutsch- und baltischsprachige Preußen des Memellandes'', in: ''Collegium Europaeum Jenense an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Deutsch-litauische Kulturbeziehungen: Kolloquium zu Ehren von August Schleicher an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena vom 19. bis 20. Mai 1994. Herausgegeben von Gertrud Bense, Maria Kozianka, Gottfried Meinhold. Ausgabe 1995'', Jena, 1995, p. 109–150 The Kürzungsgebietsmundart was spoken around Braunsberg and Frauenburg and had a border to Natangian, Westkäslausch, Mundart der Elbinger Höhe and Oberländisch (a High Prussian dialect).Walther Ziesemer, ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten'', Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 131f., part ''f) Das Kürzungsge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low Prussian Dialect
Low Prussian (), sometimes known simply as Prussian (''Preußisch''), is a moribund dialect of East Low German that developed in East Prussia. Low Prussian was spoken in East and West Prussia and Danzig up to 1945. In Danzig it formed the basis of the particular city dialect of Danzig German. It developed on a Baltic substrate through the influx of Dutch- and Low German-speaking immigrants. It supplanted Old Prussian, which became extinct in the early 18th century. Simon Dach's poem '' Anke van Tharaw'' was written in Low Prussian. Classification Low Prussian is a Low German dialect formerly spoken in Prussia. It is separated from its only adjacent German dialect, High Prussian, by the Benrath line and the Uerdingen line, the latter dialect being Central German. This was once one of the, if not the hardest linguistic border within the German dialects. Plautdietsch is included within Low Prussian by some observers. Excluding Plautdietsch, Low Prussian can be consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natangian
Natangian () was a Low Prussian dialect, Low Prussian dialect, spoken in Natangen, East Prussia. Geography It was spoken in Natangen around Zinten, Bartoszyce, Bartenstein, Pravdinsk, Friedland, Srokowo, Drengfurt and Kętrzyn, Rastenburg. Natangian has or used to have a border with Breslausch (a High Prussian dialect, High Prussian dialect), Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets, Ostsamländisch, Mundart des Ostgebietes, Westkäslausch and Ostkäslausch. There was a border of Prince-Bishopric of Warmia to the state of the Teutonic Order, which also was the border of Natangian to Ostkäslausch. Phonology In difference to Samländisch, vowel breaking of every long e to ei and every o to ou and the word ''dirch'' are characteristic. It has significant features shared with Mundart der Elbinger Höhe. ''A'' is palatal.Walther Mitzka. ''Kleine Schriften zur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeographie''. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 324 References East Prussia Low Prussian dialec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Prussia
East Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia, province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad). East Prussia was the main part of the Prussia (region), region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea, Baltic Coast. The bulk of the ancestral lands of the Baltic Old Prussians were enclosed within East Prussia. During the 13th century, the native Prussians were conquered by the crusading Teutonic Knights. After the Northern Crusades, conquest the indigenous Balts were gradually converted to Christianity. Because of Germanization and colonisation over the following centuries, Germans became the dominant ethnic group, while Polish people, Poles and Lithuanians formed sizeable minorities. From the 13th century, the region of Prussia was part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westphalian Dialect
Westphalian or Westfalish (Standard High German: ', Standard Dutch: ') is one of the major dialect groups of Low German. Its most salient feature is its diphthongization (rising diphthongs). For example, speakers say () instead of or for "to eat". (There is also a difference in the use of consonants ''within'' the Westphalian dialects: North of the Wiehengebirge, people tend to use unvoiced consonants, whereas south of the Wiehengebirge they tend to use the voiced equivalents, e.g. > .) The Westphalian dialect region includes the north-eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, i.e. the former Prussian province of Westphalia, without Siegerland and Wittgenstein, but including the southern part of former government district Weser-Ems (e.g. the region around Osnabrück and the landscape of Emsland in modern Lower Saxony). Traditionally, all Dutch Low Saxon dialects are considered Westphalian, with the notable exception of Gronings, which is grouped with the Northern Low Saxon an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostkäslausch
Ostkäslausch is a Low Prussian dialect of Low German spoken in an area of Poland, that used to be part of Germany. Geography It used to be or is spoken in Warmia in East Prussia. Ziesemer, Walther. ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten''. Ferdinand Hirt, 1924, p. 137. Its border ran through Warmia.Mitzka, Walther. ''Grundzüge nordostdeutscher Sprachgeschichte''. Elwert, 1959, p. 51 Ostkäslausch used to be spoken around Reszel and used to have borders to Breslausch, Natangian and Standard German. It has features of Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian, Westphalian dialect, Westphalian and East Pomeranian dialect. The Eastern border of Ostkäslausch was the old border of Catholic Warmia to Protestant State of the Teutonic Order, it bordered to Natangian. It occurred, that Ostkäslausch and High Prussian were spoken in the same village. Phonology There is gutturalisation of ''nd'' and ''nt'' to ''ng''; usually an ''i'' added (''Schtuing'' 'hour', cf. Standard German ''Stunde''), bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieniężno
Pieniężno (former ; ) is a town in northern Poland, located on the Wałsza River in Warmia, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is located in Braniewo County and had a population of 2,801 in 2010. History Middle Ages During the Middle Ages, an Old Prussian fort called ''Malcekuke'', loosely translated as "woods of the subterraneous" or "devil's ground", was located near the current site of Pieniężno. This was linguistically corrupted by German settlers to ''Mehlsack'', meaning "flour sack", and then by Poles to ''Melzak''. In the 14th century it was founded as a town west of Heilsberg (Lidzbark) in Warmia. The town's coat of arms depicts three bags of flour spaced in between a golden sword and a silver key, all on a blue background. The website recalls a story that the inhabitants defied a Swedish siege in the 17th century by spilling their last sack of flour as a deception to convince them that they still had plenty of food left. The Teutonic Knights built an ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Prussian Dialect
High Prussian () is a group of East Central German dialects in former East Prussia, in present-day Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (Poland) and Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia). High Prussian developed in the 13th–15th centuries, brought in by German settlers mainly from Silesia and Thuringia, and was influenced by the Baltic Old Prussian language. Classification High Prussian is a Central German dialect formally spoken in Prussia. It is separated from its only adjacent German dialect, Low Prussian, by the Benrath line and the Uerdingen line, the latter dialect being Low German. This was once one of the, if not the hardest linguistic border within the German dialects. It shares some features with Low Prussian, differentiating it from other Central German dialects east of the . Those Borussisms are: * Loss of ''-n'' in infinitives ( for Standard German , "to make"); * retention of the prefix ''ge-'' in the participe perfect passive (compare Low German from Mecklenburg to Low Pru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breslausch
High Prussian () is a group of East Central German dialects in former East Prussia, in present-day Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (Poland) and Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia). High Prussian developed in the 13th–15th centuries, brought in by German settlers mainly from Silesia and Thuringia, and was influenced by the Baltic Old Prussian language. Classification High Prussian is a Central German dialect formally spoken in Prussia. It is separated from its only adjacent German dialect, Low Prussian, by the Benrath line and the Uerdingen line, the latter dialect being Low German. This was once one of the, if not the hardest linguistic border within the German dialects. It shares some features with Low Prussian, differentiating it from other Central German dialects east of the . Those Borussisms are: * Loss of ''-n'' in infinitives ( for Standard German , "to make"); * retention of the prefix ''ge-'' in the participe perfect passive (compare Low German from Mecklenburg to Low Prussi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Pomeranian Dialect
East Pomeranian (') or Farther Pomeranian (') is an East Low German dialect moribund in Europe, which used to be spoken in the region of Farther Pomerania when it was part of the German Province of Pomerania, until World War II, and today is part of Poland. Currently, the language survives mainly in Brazil, where it is spoken by descendants of German immigrants of the 19th century and where it was given its own script by the linguist Ismael Tressmann. It has co-official status in 11 Brazilian municipalities and has been recognized as a historical and cultural heritage of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. East Pomeranian is also spoken in central Wisconsin and parts of Iowa, in the United States. Nowadays, spoken East Pomeranian in Brazil has mostly been influenced by Portuguese language and Hunsrik, a German dialect derived from the Hunsrückisch native to Brazil. It excludes the dialect spoken in the United States, known as Wisconsin Pomeranian, which was influenced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastphalian Dialect
Eastphalian, or Eastfalian (, Eastphalian and Low Saxon: ''ostfälsch Platt''), is a Low German language spoken in southeastern parts of Lower Saxony and western parts of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. Geographical extent The language area between the Weser and Elbe rivers stretches from the Lüneburg Heath in the north to the Harz mountain range and Weser Uplands in the south. It comprises the Hanover Region, Brunswick and Calenberg Land as well as the Magdeburg Börde, including the cities of Hanover, Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Göttingen and Magdeburg. It roughly corresponds with the historic region of Eastphalia. Classification Eastphalian as a separate dialect was determined by 19th century linguistics, tracing it back to Old Saxon variants spoken in eastern parts of the medieval stem duchy of Saxony. Towards the Elbe region in the southeast, the language area is increasingly influenced by the High German consonant shift. Features The most prominent characteristic in Eastpha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
