Thuringian dialects

Dialects in Thuringia

The Thuringia is part of the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect group , which the East Middle belongs. It is spoken in Thuringia (north of Rennsteig and Salzbogen ), southwestern Saxony-Anhalt and in small parts of Hesse ( Werratal ) and Bavaria ( Ludwigsstadt ).

Thuringian is characterized by a rounding of the vowels, lenization of the consonants and a differentiated pronunciation of the letter ⟨g⟩.

Subgroups of Thuringian are:

• Central Thuringian
• Northern Thuringian
• Northeast Thuringian
• East Thuringian
• Southeast Thuringian
• Ilmthuringian
• West Thuringian

Hennebergisch , on the other hand, is an East Franconian dialect.

Trivia

The Thuringian Dictionary was published in six volumes between 1966 and 2006 and contains around 5.5 million word references.

There is an Asterix volume in Northern Thuringian (dialect book 33: Asterix schwatzt thieringsch 1 - Cäsarn sinn Jeschenke ).

See also

• Central German languages ​​and dialects

literature

• Beat Siebenhaar : East Central German: Thuringian and Upper Saxon. In: Joachim Herrgen, Jürgen Erich Schmidt (Hrsg.): German: Language and Space. An international handbook of language variation (= handbooks for linguistics and communication studies. Volume 30/4). de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-026129-5 , pp. 407-435.
• Karl Spangenberg: Thuringian. In: Charles V. J. Russ: The Dialects of Modern German. A Linguistic Survey. Routledge, London 1990, ISBN 0-415-00308-3 , pp. 265-289.
• Peter Wiesinger : Phonetic-phonological research on vowel development in German dialects. Volumes 1 and 2. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1970 (Studia Linguistica Germanica 2).

Web links

• Thuringian in the dialect atlas of Deutsche Welle