South Hessian dialect
South Hessian | ||
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Spoken in |
Hessen ( South Hesse ), Bavaria ( Lower Franconia , western Spessart ) | |
Linguistic classification |
South Hesse refers to a group of Rhine-Franconian dialects . They belong to the Hessian dialects and are spoken in different variants in and around Frankfurt am Main , Wiesbaden , Mainz , Aschaffenburg and Darmstadt .
“South Hessian” in the sense of the traditional dialect should not be confused with the New Hessian Regiolekt .
Demarcation
The Odenwälderische is already that of the Mundartforschung Palatinate (Rhine Palatinate) attributed (The "Fescht / solid boundary" is considered a dividing line between Palatine and Hessian).
In the north, the border traditionally runs (i.e. at the time of the surveys for the German Language Atlas ) roughly along the Main. However, the so-called New Hessian is very expansive, especially towards the north, and displaces the local Central Hessian dialects . This process encompasses an area that currently extends from the city limits of Frankfurt to the southern limits of the Limburg-Weilburg , Lahn-Dill-Kreis and Gießen districts . The Central Hessian dialects have not yet completely disappeared in this area, but the so-called Neu- or " RMV " Hessian (RMV = Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund) dominates. The Rheinhessian spoken in Mainz is also one of the South Hessian dialects, the vocabulary of which is described in the South Hessian dictionary .
Dialects
- Lower Mainland ( Bavarian Lower Franconia , e.g. around Aschaffenburg , Obernburg and Miltenberg as well as in the western half of the Spessart )
- Riedhessisch ( Hessen , in the Hessian Ried )
- Frankfurterisch (in Frankfurt am Main , formerly a language island in the Central Hessian dialect area )
The dialects Wetterauisch , Taunusländisch , Nassauisch and Ost-Westerwäldisch represent mixed forms with the Central Hessian.
The dialects belong to the Rhine-Franconian language area and border in the south and west on the Palatinate and Electoral Palatinate , in the east on the East Franconian and in the north on the Upper Hessian .
Web links
- Dialects in Hessen . (incl. language samples) In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Database South Hessian ( Memento from March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Anecdotes in Hessian dialect, with German translation
- Flerschemerisch.de - A lexicon of the Flörsheim dialect (a sub-variant of the South Hessian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helga Bister-Broosen: Language change in the dialect of Krefeld . New York 1989, p. 10.