Upper Silesian dialect
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The Upper Silesian dialect (in the dialect Aeberschläsche Mundoart or Oberschläs'sche Mundoart ) is a Silesian dialect of East Central German spoken in Upper Silesia .
In Upper Silesia before 1945 around two thirds of the population spoke Upper Silesian, the dialect of the Brieg-Grottkauer Land as well as Mountain Silesian .
Between the Upper Silesian dialect and the Polish-Silesian dialect, which were spoken side by side in Upper Silesia, there was often an exchange of dialect words and parts of words. For example, both dialects contain the same terms as gouge ( bajtel ), but also words that are a mixture of the two dialects. So the Polish ending -ek was added to German names like Franz, from which the pet form Franzek arose.
Even if Germans still live in this dialect area today , mostly only the older generations speak the dialect. Since the German language was banned from 1945 to 1990 and its use in public was also punished, the dialect could not be passed on orally to other generations. That is why the younger generations, when they have mastered the German language, usually only speak Standard German, as they know it from the media and school lessons as well as through contact with Germany.
Typical Upper Silesian words
| Upper Silesian dialect (from West Upper Silesia) | Upper Silesian dialect (from Eastern Upper Silesia) | German |
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| Jingla | Gouge | (little boy |
| Bargmoan | Grubiosch | Miner |
| herb | herb | Cabbage |
| Kreppel, Kreppl | Crepe | Kräpfel, Krapfen, Berliner (pancake) |
| Mostrich | Mostrich | mustard |
| Noodle bowl | Noodle kula | Rolling pin, rolling pin, rolling pin |
| Nuppel, Nuppl | Nuppel | dummy |
| Collect, Semml | Bread roll | Bun (to break into four parts in the shape of a figure eight) |
| Sicherka | Sicherka | Safety pin |
| Sucks | Sucks | sausage |
Dialects
literature
- Reinhold Vettel "Silesian-German and Polish cultural traditions in a European border region" DuMont Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4418-X , p. 34
Web links
- Actually, High German was spoken in Gleiwitz! Or is it not?
- Upper Silesian dialect words from Upper Silesia
- Silesian language
- Poems in the German Silesian-Galician dialect
- Phonetic analysis of the consonants in the German language of the Oberglogau (Głogówek) area ( Memento from September 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 204 kB)
- The German language island Kostenthal - past and present
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : Professor from Poland in Beselich annually for decades . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2020 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 2019, ISBN 3-927006-57-2 , p. 223-228 .