South Hessian dialect

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South Hessian

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. Helga Bister-Broosen: Language change in the dialect of Krefeld . New York 1989, p. 10.