Dialects in Baden

Badisch is a redirect to this article. Further meanings are listed under Badisch (disambiguation) .

Sign "Keep exit free" in Alemannic in Freiburg

The term Baden dialects traditional are the former Baden land used dialects summarized. However, this is not a separate, dialectologically coherent dialect group, but dialects that belong to different dialect groups. The umbrella dialect "Badisch" is derived from the territory of the Grand Duchy, resp. from the subsequent Republic of Baden , which became part of Baden-Württemberg in 1945/52 .

Dialect groups

The dialect groups Kurpfälzisch , Südfränkisch , Niederalemannisch , Mittelalemannisch , Hoch Alemannisch , Swabian and East Franconian can be found in Baden .

Except for Kurpfälzisch and East Franconian, the term Badisch is used indiscriminately for each of these dialect groups. Only for High Alemannic is the term Alemannic used just as often or even more frequently ; This term appears even more rarely for Niederalemannisch. High Alemannic in Baden is closely related to the Swiss-German dialects in the neighboring Swiss cantons. Mostly the usage corresponds to the name of the respective region, one says Badisch to Niederalemannisch in the Niederalemannischen area (around Freiburg ), to Südfränkisch in the south Franconian area (around Karlsruhe ).

The area around Meßkirch and Pfullendorf is part of the Swabian dialect area, the region around Pforzheim is an area in which Swabian and South Franconian dialect characteristics mix. Swabian dialect codes are increasing on the Baar and Lake Constance. The East Franconian can be found in the northeast, around Tauberbischofsheim .

Documentation, research

The Baden dictionary , which is still being worked on , has been covering the vocabulary of the High and Lower Alemannic (Upper Rhine-Manic) as well as those of the South Franconian and Palatinate dialects in Baden since 1914. There are also numerous regional and local dictionaries, for example the Alemannic dictionary for Baden by Rudolf Post and Scheer-Nahor, published in 2009 .

There is also a large number of local grammars that describe the phonetic level, but also the system of forms and, in some cases, the theory of sentences.

The Alemannic dialects of Baden are also mainly documented by the Southwest German Language Atlas , the South, Rhine and East Franconian by the Language Atlas for North Baden-Württemberg .

The recent language change is being investigated in two projects, which are based at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and, in the second case, also at the University of Strasbourg.

Web links

• Baden dictionary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Wiesinger , Elisabeth Raffin: Bibliography on the grammar of German dialects. Phonology, forms, word formation and sentence theory 1800 to 1980. Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main 1982. Peter Wiesinger: Bibliography on the grammar of German dialects. Phonology, forms, word formation and sentence theory 1981 to 1985 and addenda from earlier years. Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main 1987. - For the sound system, see also Peter Wiesinger: Phonetic-phonological studies on vowel development in German dialects. Volumes 1 and 2. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1970 (Studia Linguistica Germanica 2).
2. ^ Linguistic Atlas of North Baden-Württemberg .
3. ↑ "Phonological change using the example of the Alemannic dialects of southwest Germany in the 20th century" and "Effects of the state border on the language situation in the Upper Rhine region" ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .