Muskau dialect
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The Muskau dialect (Sorbian Mužakowska narěč ), also East Lower Sorbian dialect , is an extinct transition dialect of the Upper and Lower Sorbian languages , which was spoken in the villages around Bad Muskau , while the townspeople already spoke predominantly German at that time. The closest dialect to the Muskau dialect is the Schleifer dialect , whose language area adjoins that of the Muskau dialect to the west. These two dialects are assigned to Lower Sorbian rather than Upper Sorbian by Slavists . The Muskau dialect also contains some characteristics of a Sorbian-Polish transition dialect.
The Russian linguist Lev Shcherba systematically described this dialect in his book Восточнолужицкое нарѣчіе ( Vostočnolužickoe narečie : "The East Lower Sorbian Dialect") published in 1915 . To do this, he traveled to Lausitz in 1907 and 1908 and moved into quarters in Weißkeißel .
Schtscherba delimited the dialect to the 14 northeastern villages in the core area of the Muskau district , almost all of which belonged to the Muskau parish: Berg , Brand , Braunsdorf , Gablenz , Haide , Hermannsdorf , Keula , Köbeln , Krauschwitz , Lugknitz , Sagar , Skerbersdorf , Weißkeißel and white water . This means that its territory is closely linked to that of the Muskau costume . It is noticeable that the parish village of Gablenz is included in the dialect, but not the places Kromlau and Jämlitz , which belong to its parish and, in the case of Jämlitz, were also associated with Muskau for a long time.
literature
- LV Ščerba : Vostočnolužickoe narečie . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1973 (photomechanical reprint, Russian with German foreword).
- Julius Eduard Wjelan : Namjezno-Mužakowska wotnožka serbšćiny . In: Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje . tape 22 , 1869, pp. 57–93 ( digital version ( PDF, 42 MB) at the Sorbian Institute - Sorbian).