Local dialect
As a local dialect , even local dialect , is called the dialect or the dialect in a place where this dialect language sufficiently different from the languages spoken in the environment of the resort languages and can distinguish. Of local languages or regional languages we speak, however, where such a distinction is not possible and multiple locations or even an entire region have a unique dialect.
Depending on the administrative status of the place, the terms village , municipality , district or city dialect are sometimes used.
Since many cities have grown together from smaller units or have been merged, it can happen that the old local dialects remain in the city and no uniform city dialect emerges, for example in Krefeld , see Krieewelsch Platt with its variants, and Oedingsch (Uerdinger Platt), but also the Hölsch Plott ( Hülser Platt ), while it can also be that several local dialects merge into a city dialect or merge into it (such as in Cologne , see Kölsch variants )
Clearly recognizable local dialects can be found particularly in areas with a strong linguistic structure in the transition areas between the dialect groups of a dialect continuum , such as in Central Hesse ( Central Hessian dialects ) such as Hinterland Platt , in the Rhineland (see also Rhenish subjects ), and often in areas with a strong geographic area Structure and relatively isolated settlements, as in the dialects of Valais German and on smaller islands.
The local dialect on an island (like the Öömrang for example) may colloquially island dialect called, this word is, however, linguistically is different from the dialect of a so-called dialect island .
Research in Germany
Since the first third of the 19th century , linguistic field research has increasingly turned to dialectological conditions in the German-speaking part of Europe, which has led, among other things, to the development of word usage maps and, in some cases, highly specific dictionaries for a number of local dialects and local grammars . Some German local dialects can now look back on a number of such publications from three centuries. In this way, language developments in the recent past are documented and comprehensible. Since this was technically possible, sound recordings from many local dialects have been made and archived. Comparative technical evaluations and documentation are planned, but the necessary aids are not yet available or in their infancy.
See also
literature
- ↑ An example of a small delimiting consideration of neighboring local dialects can be found in: Theodor Horster: " Rheinberg Dictionary - A Documentation of Dialect on the Lower Rhine" Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne, 1996, ISBN 3-7927-1472-8 in the introduction by Georg Cornelissen , Section 1.4, pages 18 ff.
- ↑ for example Kölsch
- ↑ see, among other things: Lautdenkmal of Imperial German dialects
