Eastern Low Prussian

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Eastern Low Prussian
German: Mundart des Ostgebietes
Native toLithuania, Poland, Russia (formerly Germany)
RegionEast Prussia
EthnicityGermans, Prussian Lithuanians
Indo-European
  • Low Prussian
    • Eastern Low Prussian
Language codes
ISO 639-3–

Eastern Low Prussian (

Tilsit (Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) in the eastern territories of East Prussia in the former eastern territories of Germany.[1] Many speakers of this subdialect were Prussian Lithuanians
.

Geography

Eastern Low Prussian had borders with

Ostsamländisch, Natangian, and Standard German.[2] Lithuanian language was spoken within its area.[2]

Phonology

In difference to varieties to the West, it had no vocalization of /r/.[3] Its alveolar /r/ probably counts among its influences from Lithuanian.[4] Werdersch has an alveolar as well.[5] Like in Werdersch, it has du motst meaning you have to. [5] Eastern Low Prussian has a greater phonetic affinity to Standard German than Samlandic.[3] The /ai/ of Samlandic is given as /ei/ with long /e/.[3]

It has features common with Nehrungisch.[6] It has major High German influence, a Lithuanian substrate, even numerous words having undergone High German consonant shift.[1] High German influence is, though not exclusively, by Salzburg Protestants.[1]

It has dorx (with the ach-Laut) for High German durch, English through.[5]

Grammar

There was a diminutive ending -l around Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast (Gumbinnen), explained by Upper German influence.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Besch et al. (2008), p. 892.
  2. ^ a b Poschenrieder (1995), p. 130.
  3. ^ a b c Ziesemer (1924), p. 128.
  4. ^ a b Ziesemer (1924), p. 129.
  5. ^ a b c Ziesemer (1924), p. 133.
  6. ^ Mitzka (1968), p. 209.

Bibliography

  • Besch, Werner; Knoop, Ulrich; Putschke, Wolfgang; Wiegand, Herbert E. (14 July 2008). Dialektologie: Ein handbuch zur deutschen und allemeinen Dialektforschung (in German). Vol. 2 (Halbband ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 892.
    ISBN 978-3-11-020333-2
    .
  • Mitzka, Walther (1968). Kleine Schriften. Walter de Gruyter & Co. p. 209.
  • Poschenrieder, Thorwald (1995) [19-20 May 1994], "Deutsch und baltischsprachige Preußen des Memellandes", in Von Gertrud Bense, Herausgegeben; Kozianka, Maria; Meinhold, Gottfried (eds.), Deutsch-litauische Kulturbeziehungen: Kolloquium zu Ehren von August Schleicher (PDF) (in German), Collegium Europaeum Jenense, University of Jena, p. 130
  • Ziesemer, Walther (1924). Die ostpreußischen Mundarten (in German).
    Breslau
    : Ferdinand Hirt. pp. 128–129, 133.

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