East Low German

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East Low German
Native toGermany, Poland, Brazil
Language codes
ISO 639-2nds for Low German
ISO 639-3nds for Low German
Glottolognort2627
Low German dialects. East Low German includes the four dialects in the east [Note: The map confuses East Pomeranian (cp. Farther Pomerania), West Prussian (cp. West Prussia) and East Prussian (cp. East Prussia).]

East Low German (

Before 1945, the dialect was spoken along the entire then-German-settled Baltic Coast from Mecklenburg, through Pomerania, West Prussia into certain villages of the East Prussian Klaipėda Region.[1][2]

East Pomeranian, Central Pomeranian and West Pomeranian should not be confused with the West Slavic Pomeranian language (German: Pomoranisch).

Related languages

East Low German belongs to the dialect continuum of the continental West Germanic languages. It developed from the older Middle Low German.

In the West it fades into West Low German. The distinction is usually made referring to the plural endings of the verbs: East Low German endings are based on the old first person ending: -e(n), whereas West Low German endings are based on the old second person ending: -(e)t. The categorization of the Low German dialects into an Eastern and a Western group is not made by all linguists.

In the South, it fades into

Brandenburgisch dialect
by which it is surrounded.

Dialects

East Low German dialects are:[3]

Instead of Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch also Mecklenburgisch and Vorpommersch are used.[4]

For some it also includes

Berlin[er]isch
.

Municipalities where East Pomeranian dialects are co-official in Espírito Santo, Brazil

The German dialects of Pomerania are compiled and described in the Pommersches Wörterbuch ("Pomeranian Dictionary"), a dictionary of the German dialects spoken within the Province of Pomerania's borders in 1936.

East Pomeranian dialect of East Low German is also spoken in

).

History

Germanized. The new Pomeranian dialects which emerged from the admixture of the Low German dialects of the settlers are classified as East Low German.[5]

After

Vorpommern (Western or Hither Pomerania), part of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[2]

As a result of German immigration to Brazil, there are still some communities speaking East Pomeranian in Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Espírito Santo.[6]

Writers

Fritz Reuter and Heinrich Bandlow are among the most famous East Low German writers.

See also

References

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  3. ^ Stellmacher, Dieter (1990). Niederdeutsche Sprache: Eine Einführung (in German). Peter Lang. p. 129. Die ond. [= ostniederdeutschen] Dialekte gliedern sich in drei größere Dialektlandschaften, das Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersche, das Mittelpommersche und das Märkisch-Brandenburgische.
  4. ^ Graefen, Gabriele; Liedke-Göbel, Martina (2020). Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft: Deutsch als Erst-, Zweit- oder Fremdsprache (in German) (3rd ed.). A. Francke. p. 31. Der niederdeutsche Sprachraum umfasst die niederfränkischen, westniederdeutschen (Westfälisch, Ostfälisch, Nordniedersächsisch) und ostniederdeutschen Dialekte (Mecklenburgisch, Vorpommersch, Brandenburgisch, Märkisch).
  5. . (series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (HSK) 2.3)
  6. ^ Dietrich, Renata Pinz (2004-08-31). "180 Anos de Imigração Alemã". Site da Lingua Alemã (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2004-08-31. Retrieved 2007-08-12.