Senftenberg dialect

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Senftenberg dialect
Period until the 20th century

Formerly spoken in

Germany : Lausitz
Linguistic
classification
Overview map of the Sorbian dialect areas with the Großkoschen dialect as part of the Senftenberg dialect

The Senftenberg dialect (Sorbian Złokomorowska narěč ) was an extinct transition dialect of the Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian languages , which was spoken in the Senftenberg and its immediate surroundings. Similar to the Muskau dialect , the proximity of the respective dialect to the two written languages ​​(Upper and Lower Sorbian) can vary from place to place. In the course of industrialization in the 20th century, the dialect in the city itself was almost displaced, later a similar situation arose in the villages around Senftenberg.

Furthermore, the assimilation was caused much earlier by the fact that the Sorbian-Wendish church services were abolished in the villages of the region in the 18th and 19th centuries ( Wendisch Sorno 1830, Klettwitz 1840, Sedlitz 1864, finally also in the Wendish church in Senftenberg in 1878 ) and had not given any Sorbian lessons in schools since 1840 (the next school with Sorbian lessons was in the village of Tätzschwitz in the Hoyerswerda district during the GDR era ). In the course of rapid industrialization , the Sorbian language was lost as a family language in the first half of the 20th century.

In the 1960s, the dialect, especially the Greater Koshen dialect, was studied by linguists with the help of the last native speakers.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dialects. In: Franz Schön , Dietrich Scholze (Hrsg.): Sorbisches Kulturlexikon . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2014, pp. 97–99, here p. 99