Hamburger Platt

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hamburger Platt

Spoken in

Hamburg , in bordering parts of Schleswig-Holstein , Lower Saxony
Linguistic
classification

The term Hamburger Platt summarizes all the varieties of Low German spoken in Hamburg , with "Platt" being an abbreviation for Low German .

The Hamburger Platt is usually divided into two groups, which reflect the old (now barely recognizable) cultural contrast between the Geest and the Marsch :

The dialects spoken on the Geest are called Geest-Platt , i.e. not directly on the Elbe , but further away from it, namely further north, because Hamburg is actually on the north bank of the Elbe. Therefore, the Geest-Platt is very similar to the Holsteiner Platt .

When marching Platt , however, the dialects are called, which are spoken in the march, the elbnahen floodplain. The Finkenwerder Platt is well-known, especially because many dialect writers come from Finkenwerder, but there is also the Vierländer Platt, the Platt des Alten Land , the Harburger Platt and others. The so-called Hafenplatt, which used to be spoken a lot in the Port of Hamburg and on St. Pauli , also belongs to this group.

The most important differences are in the vowels and in the realization of the phoneme b . A small, exemplary overview of the differences between the Geest and the Marsch variant:

Geest march Standard German
geven give give
maken moken do
listen hire Listen
Köok Köok kitchen
kill deaf waiting
baven bob above

The traditional distribution area of ​​the Geest-Platt is now largely urbanized, and Low German has a particularly difficult position in the actual urban area within the federal state of Hamburg. Platt is still more widespread in the rural areas belonging to Hamburg, such as the Vier- und Marschlanden or in the old country, that is precisely where Marsch-Platt is spoken. Marsch-Platt was also spoken in the milieu of the port workers (which no longer exists today in its old form) , one of the last strongholds of Low German in Hamburg. That is why today “Hamburger Platt” is usually understood to mean this variant.

All subspecies of the Hamburger Platt belong to the North Low German branch of the Low German language, North Low Saxon .

The vocabulary of the Hamburg dialects is recorded and described in the Hamburg dictionary . There are also some dialectological dissertations that document the sound level in Hamburg.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gesinus Kloeke: The vocalism of the dialect of Finkenwärder near Hamburg. Phil. Diss. Leipzig. Hamburg 1913 (information from the German Seminar in Hamburg I: 11th supplement to the yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institute XXX, 1912); Hugo Larsson: The sound of the dialect of the Altengamme community (in the Vierlanden near Hamburg). Hamburg 1917 (1st supplement to the yearbook of the Hamburg scientific institutions XXXIV. 1916: messages from the German seminar in Hamburg III).