Sorbian border dialects

Sorbian border dialects
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Linguistic classification	Indo-European Slavic West Slavic Sorbian Sorbian border dialects

Sorbian language area 1843 (Sorbian border dialects in the middle)		Sorbian dialects

The Sorbian border dialects (also Sorbian transition dialects ) are a group of Sorbian dialects that have developed along the transition zone between Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian and contain elements of both standard varieties.

Most of the transition zone lies in the north of Upper Lusatia on the border with Lower Lusatia , roughly along a line Senftenberg - Hoyerswerda - Weißwasser . Well -known Sorabists disagree about an exact delimitation .

According to Stieber, these are the dialects of Großkoschen (more Upper Sorbian), Kleinkoschen (more Lower Sorbian), the Spreewitzer and Nochten dialects (both more Upper Sorbian) and the Schleifer and Muskauer dialects (both more about Lower Sorbian).

Arnošt Muka saw the transition zone in his Phonology and Forms of the Lower Sorbian language published in 1891, but denied the Upper Sorbian border dialects the status of a transition dialect. Its classification was:

• Muskau dialect ( Muskau and Gablenz parishes )
• actual border dialect
  • eastern border dialect ( Schleifer dialect )
  • Middle border dialect ( Zerre , Terpe , Sabrodt , Bluno , Proschim , Groß Partwitz , Klein Partwitz and Scado )
  • western border dialect ( Senftenberg dialect with the places around Senftenberg)

The distinction between the Muskau and the actual border dialects was partly also carried by Ščerba , who saw the Muskau dialect as a third Sorbian language in addition to the Lower Sorbian and the Upper Sorbian. His investigation of the Muskau dialect with the corresponding publication in 1915 goes back to a direct recommendation of Muka.

In 1965 Ronald Lötzsch defined the transition zone along the dialects Großkoschen, Groß Partwitz-Terpe, Hoyerswerda , Spreewitz-Neustadt, Runde, Muskau and Nochten , taking into account Paul Wirth's contributions to the Sorbian language atlas . He also pointed out that - according to Siegfried Michalk's investigation of the Neustädter dialect - the Upper Sorbian Spreewitz dialect is morphologically much closer to Lower Sorbian than Upper Sorbian.

literature

1. ↑ Zdzisław Stieber : Stosunki pokrewieństwa języków łużyckich . Kraków 1934.
2. ^ Karl Ernst Mucke : Historical and comparative phonology and forms of the Lower Sorbian (Lower Lusatian-Wendish) language. With special consideration of the border dialects and Upper Sorbian . S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1891.
3. ↑ LV Ščerba : Vostočnolužickoe narečie . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1973 (photomechanical reprint, Russian with German foreword).
4. ↑ Ronald Lötzsch : The specific innovations of the Sorbian dual flexion (=  series of publications of the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen . Volume  28 ). Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1965.
5. ^ Paul Wirth : Contributions to the Sorbian (Wendish) linguistic atlas (=  Slavistic treatises . 2 volumes, 1933/1936, No.  1 ). Commission publisher Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig.
6. ^ Siegfried Michalk : The Upper Sorbian dialect of Neustadt . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1962.