Westkäslausch was a Low Prussian

dialect A dialect is a Variety (linguistics), variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standard language, standardized varieties as well as Vernacular language, vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardize ...

spoken in

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 ...

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(now

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). It has features of Eastphalian, Westphalian and

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 ...

Geography

Westkäslausch used to have borders to

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. Nat ...

, Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets and Breslausch (a

High Prussian 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 Germa ...

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 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 ...

Phonology

It has ''d'' between vowels as ''r''. Diphthongization seen in

is mostly also present in Westkäslausch.

Grammar

It has the preterite forms ''kam'' and ''nam''.Walther Ziesemer: ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten'', Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Westkaslausch East Prussia Low Prussian dialect German dialects Languages of Poland