East Central German dialects

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Central German dialects after 1945
    Former Central German language area -
practically nonexistent since 1945/50
27 = Lusatian-Silesian
28 = High Prussian

The East Central German dialects are predominantly spoken in the south of the eastern federal states, which are also often summarized under the term Central Germany , i.e. primarily in Thuringia , Saxony and southern Saxony-Anhalt . There are also parts of Brandenburg and Berlin as well as border landscapes in Bavaria , Hesse and Lower Saxony .

As a result of the post-war expulsions in particular, many speakers of East Central German dialects from Silesia , East Prussia , Bohemia and Moravia came to other areas and were assimilated there. Especially around Opole there is still a Silesian-speaking German minority in Poland .

The East Frankish forms a transition to the Upper German dialects and is usually arranged there.

Dialect groups of East Central German

Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect group

Lausitz-Südmärkisch in Berlin and south of it

Silesian

As a result of the Second World War and the expulsion of most of the respective dialect speakers, the following East Central German dialects almost disappeared beginning in 1945. In Poland and the Czech Republic they are rarely spoken today. According to the 2002 Polish census, around 200,000 people in Poland still use German dialects.

vocabulary

The vocabulary of East Central German dialects is recorded and described in the Brandenburg-Berlin Dictionary (North Upper Saxon -South Markish), the Thuringian Dictionary (Thuringian dialects), the Dictionary of Upper Saxon dialects (Upper Saxon and Lausitzian dialects), the Silesian dictionary (Silesian dialects), in the Sudeten German Dictionary (East Central German dialects from Bohemia, Moravia and Sudeten Silesia) and in the Prussian dictionary (High Prussian dialects).

Examples of the dialect

  • Feumel is a wooden cone made from split firewood.
  • Porstube is a room in an outbuilding of the farm.

See also

literature

  • Beat Siebenhaar : East Central German: Thuringian and Upper Saxon. In: Joachim Herrgen, Jürgen Erich Schmidt (Hrsg.): German: Language and Space. An international handbook of language variation (= handbooks for linguistics and communication studies. Volume 30/4). de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-026129-5 , pp. 407-435.

Web links

Wiktionary: East Central German  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Jungandreas : On the history of the Silesian dialect in the Middle Ages. Studies on the language and settlement in East Central Germany. (Habilitation from the University of Breslau, 1933). Breslau 1937 (= German studies: B. Schlesische Reihe. Volume 3); Reprint, obtained from Wolfgang Kleiber, Mainz 1987.