Upper Harz
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Oberharzisch ("Ewerharzisch") is a high German language variety from the old district of Osterode am Harz and the district of Goslar in Lower Saxony in Germany . It is spoken in a linguistic island in the Upper Harz that was shaped by mining . A large part of the people who immigrated to the area came from the western Ore Mountains . At least before, it was surrounded by an area where Lower Saxon was spoken.
Web links
- Oberharzisch on the website of the Heimatbund Oberharz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Borchers: Language and founding history of the Erzgebirge colony in the Upper Harz . Elwert, Marburg 1927, p. 34.