Mecklenburg Low German
Mecklenburg Low German is a dialect group of the Low German ("Low German") language , which is derived from Old Saxon , and is the part of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania dialect continuum that most comprehensively contains its phonetic characteristics. Mecklenburg is spoken in the western part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In the east, the Mecklenburg dialect group changes into West Pomeranian or Western Pomerania, which has stronger Kashubian (i.e. Pomoran or Slavic-Pomeranian) substrates and - like Mecklenburg - belongs to East Low German . However, there is no sharp boundary between the dialects spoken in the west and the dialects in the east, only smooth transitions. Mecklenburgisch was able to maintain itself very well in some cases, benefiting from the rural structure of the state.
One of the hallmarks of Mecklenburg, as well as the Western Pomerania dialects, is the use of the diminutive suffix -ing , e.g. B. in Poot 'Pfote'> Pöting 'Pfötchen', Änning 'Ännchen', read ' ' softly ',' slowly ',' carefully '> liesing ' mouse mouse still ',' very carefully '
The vocabulary of the Mecklenburg dialects is recorded and described in the Mecklenburg dictionary .
Web links
- Tauhus' bi Treckfiedel-Hanne (texts with sound files as well as high German and English translations)
- Wossidlo archive with the text corpus collected by Richard Wossidlo for the Mecklenburg dictionary
- Mecklenburgisch - audio reportage with audio samples from Deutsche Welle