Goeshard Frisian
The term Goesharder Frisian is a comprehensive name for three of the ten main dialects of the North Frisian language , which are spoken in the two Goeshardens (north of Husum ) in North Frisia . A distinction is made between North, Central and South Goeshard Frisian. The Südergoesharder Frisian went under with the last two speakers, who died in 1980 and October 10, 1981 in Hattstedt . This means that the Middle Goeshard Frisian is now the southernmost dialect of the mainland North Frisian dialects.
Current situation
The two remaining Goeshard dialects are also acutely threatened with extinction. The hairdresser Nils Århammar writes : “We are very well informed about the progressive language change Frisian → Low German on the mainland and the Halligen at the beginning of the 20th century thanks to the detailed language statistics in Ernst Brandt's dissertation 'The North Frisian Language of the Goesharden' ( Hall 1913 ). Brandt recorded all households and differentiated them according to men, women and children. Only in the north-westerly remote village of Ockholm (Nordergoesharde) can one still “rightly speak of a Frisian village” - and that 100 years ago! Only here were the Frisian-speaking households and children in the majority back then. "
The Middle Goeshard Frisian is also extremely threatened, so Århammar; in 2006 the last speaker of the Frisian variant there died in Bohmstedt . In neighboring Drelsdorf , too , only a few people speak the Middle Goeshard Frisian.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nils Århammar : North Frisian, an endangered minority language in ten dialects: an inventory. In: Are the dialects dying out? Lecture series by the Interdisciplinary Center for Dialect Research, October 22 to December 10, 2007. 2008, full text online .