Ponaschemu

Ponaschemu
Spoken in	Germany , Lower Lusatia
speaker	about 500
Linguistic ; classification	Mixed language based on German and Lower Sorbian . Ponaschemu ;

The Ponaschemu (German in our way ) is an "intermediate language" in Niederlausitz with Lower Sorbian (Wendish) and German elements.

The language was widely used until the 1950s. The Ponaschemu was mainly spoken in villages (especially in the Spreewald ) where Sorbs (Wends) and Germans lived together. In small towns and Cottbus this mixed language was hardly used, but rather ridiculed by the urbanized population. Today Ponaschemu is hardly used any more, as the inhabitants of the then bilingual villages predominantly assimilated into German.

example

Nursery rhyme from 1890 recorded by Wilibald von Schulenburg (Spreewald), also known in Jänschwalde / Janšojce.

Dawn, swinja dead. Škla grochow, zwerjcha knochow. Clicka rajsa, zwerjcha šajsa.
“Dawn, pigs dead. Bowl of peas, bones on top. Bowl of rice, shit upstairs. "

literature

The Lower Sorbian Wendisch. A language-time journey. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2003, ISBN 3-7420-1886-8 .
Serbska Pratyja. Budyšyn [Bautzen] 2008.

Individual evidence

↑ "There" on the Heede "in the Lower Lausitz is pronounced" Ponaschemu, "a sub-us language Sorbian of a mixture and German words." In: Johanna Berger: Erwin Strittmatter: "One has its difficulties with the wisdom ..." In: contours. Magazine for Language, Literature and Landscape , Issue 1, 1992, pp. 57–64, quoted on p. 59.

[1] "There" on the Heede "in the Lower Lausitz is pronounced" Ponaschemu, "a sub-us language Sorbian of a mixture and German words." In: Johanna Berger: Erwin Strittmatter: "One has its difficulties with the wisdom ..." In: contours. Magazine for Language, Literature and Landscape , Issue 1, 1992, pp. 57–64, quoted on p. 59.