Northeast Thuringian

Northeast Thuringian
Spoken in	Thuringia , Saxony-Anhalt
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Standard German Middle German Thuringian-Upper Saxon Northeast Thuringian

The Nordostthüringische is a dialect of the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect group of around Artern in Thuringia and to a large extent in Saxony-Anhalt to Halle (Saale) , with the standalone dialect Hallisch , Querfurt and Merseburg is spoken.

Distribution area of ​​the northeast Thuringian dialect in Thuringia

Characteristic

The north-east Thuringian language area is largely outside the state borders of Thuringia. As in North Thuringia, there are also numerous Low German language elements here, but unlike in that, the long i and u are diphthongized to ei and au as in High German. (Wine House). Features such as the pronunciation of k as g before vowels (Gimmelgerner - caraway seeds) and of g as j (jut - good) are also typical of the neighboring Osterland language .

Mansfeld forms a specific dialect of its own on a Low German substrate within the northeast Thuringian language area .

Web links

• Northeast Thuringian on the website of the Thuringian Dialect Research Unit of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena