North Bohemian dialects

Places and rivers in North Bohemia

North Bohemian dialects of German were spoken in the north of Bohemia until the expulsion of the German Bohemians after 1945 . For a while they still live with the displaced people scattered across Germany and other countries. Of these dialects, however, only Silesian is completely threatened with extinction , because the others are spoken in at least a very similar form in the neighboring regions of Germany.

There were four different dialects in Northern Bohemia :

• Egerland - between Eger , Karlsbad and Pilsen , a Bavarian dialect

• Erzgebirge - between Komotau and Teplitz-Schönau , essentially like in Germany around Annaberg-Buchholz

• East Franconian - in the Saaz area

• Thuringian-Upper Saxon - between Teplitz-Schönau and Tetschen , similar to Germany around Dresden

• Upper Lusatian - Silesian - east of Tetschen , similar to Germany around Zittau

There were mixed, transitional and special forms of these main dialects, such as the dialects of the Elbe Valley in the Teplitz- Aussig -Tetschen area, or the "Dutch", which comes from the so-called " Netherlands ", the area around Warnsdorf and Rumburg , is named.