Rheinhessen dialect
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The Rheinhessen dialect or Rheinhessen dialect , also briefly Rheinhessen is, in the triangle Bingen am Rhein - Mainz - Worms spoken. The dialect belongs to West Central German and is assigned to Rhine Franconian within it . In the south-western area ( Alzey to Worms) a slightly Palatinate tone color is possible , in the north-eastern area towards Mainz a southern Hessian tone is possible.
Characteristic
The further classification within the Rhine Franconian is not clear. The Linguasphere Register assigns the dialect for the area around Alzey to the West Palatinate dialect group .
In the south, the Rhine-Hessian meets the Palatinate , with which it is often confused geographically and culturally. Rhenish Hessian is more closely related to South Hessian . Particularly on the Rhine front there are clear similarities, especially with the Rheingau dialect . For both native speakers of Hesse and Rhineland-Hesse, however, there are clear differences in the sound coloring and in the vocabulary.
The best known is the Rheinhessen in its Mainz form, the Meenzerischen, not least thanks to the television program, which has been broadcast nationwide for the Mainz Carnival since the beginning of the television age, Mainz remains Mainz as it sings and laughs .
For historical reasons, Rheinhessen has French influences (nasal and mumbling sounds), because Rheinhessen was temporarily part of France during the French Revolutionary Wars and was mainly in the Donnersberg department . There are also strong Jewish influences.
A symbiosis of both influences comes e.g. B. in the Mainz word Masselschees expressed:
- Massel - Yiddish for 'luck'
- Schees or original French chaise for 'chair'
- becomes
- Masselschees - German for 'seat of happiness', i.e. 'cradle'
literature
- Rudolf Post : The dialects in Rheinhessen. Exploration - limits - particularities. In: Alzeyer Geschichtsblätter 38. 2010, pp. 51–74.
- Hartmut Keil: Rheinhessisches Mundart-Lexikon . 1st edition. Leinpfad, Ingelheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-937782-83-6 .
- Georg Drenda: Word atlas for Rheinhessen, Pfalz and Saarpfalz . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2014, ISBN 978-3-86110-546-6 .
See also
- Rheinhessen in Wikipedia: Schwellkopp , Spundekäs , Weck, Worscht un Woi
- Dialects in Rhineland-Palatinate
- South Hessian dictionary