you-enk-line

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The euch / enk line denotes an isogloss within the continental West Germanic dialect continuum . It is named after the pronoun of the second person plural dative and the accusative you . While this in the rest of the German language area with various Variants you is, so is this the Bavarian language area with enk referred.

Since this isogloss essentially follows the course of the Lech and forms the dialect border between Swabian and Bavarian there , it is also known as the Lech line .

course

This isogloss began as part of the Karlsruhe Line southeast of the city of Karlsbad . To the north of this town, it made an arc towards the German - Czech border. This crossed the Isogloss near Graslitz and met the Apfel / Appel line at the Ascher tip , which it now crossed.

The line therefore ran north of Eger in the direction of Nuremberg , which remains on the western and thus the East Franconian side and forms the language border between East Franconian and North Bavarian . From there the Isogloss runs south and now follows the Monheim - Wertingen - Augsburg - Landsberg - Füssen line . East of this city the Isogloss crosses the German- Austrian border. In Austria, this isogloss essentially forms the dialect border between the Alemannic Vorarlberg and the Bavarian-speaking Tyrol . The isogloss ends at the triangle between Switzerland , Austria and Italy .

Source and literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Dörr, W. Kerl and Osmipress GmbH: East Germany and the German settlement areas in Eastern and Southeastern Europe . 3rd edition Südwest Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-517-01070-7 ; Language map p. 54.
  2. ↑ Werner König : dtv atlas on the German language , display map p. 92.