Front Palatinate dialect group

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Front Palatinate

Spoken in

Rhineland-Palatinate , Northern Alsace
Linguistic
classification

Vorderpfälzisch is one of the Palatinate dialects and is a dialect group of Rheinfränkischen within West Central German . It is spoken in parts of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, as well as in the extreme northeast of France . Rudolf Post combines the Upper Palatinate and the Electoral Palatinate under the name Eastern Palatinate . Together with West Palatinate , it forms the Palatinate dialect group.

Linguistic geography

variants

The Linguasphere Register lists five dialects under the Upper Palatinate (52-ACB-df) :

  1. 52-ACB-dfa: Alsatian-Palatinate (Weißenburg ( Wissembourg ) / northern Lower Alsace )
  2. 52-ACB-dfb: Haardtgebirgisch ( Haardt / German Wine Route )
  3. 52-ACB-dfc: Speyerisch-Landauisch ( Speyer / Landau / Südpfalz )
  4. 52-ACB-dfd: Ludwigshafenerisch ( Ludwigshafen am Rhein / Vorderpfalz )
  5. 52-ACB-dfe: Wormserisch ( Worms / southern Rheinhessen )

This classification is not generally accepted among linguists. As reasons against it u. a. listed:

  1. The Speyerische has the Landauischen little in common, but quite a lot with the Ludwigshafenerischen.
  2. The Landau language clearly belongs to the South Palatinate language , which does not appear in the Linguasphere Register.
  3. South Palatinate is spoken on the southern Haardt .
  4. The Ludwigshafen language differs significantly from the idioms of the neighboring north-east Palatinate.
  5. In contrast to the Linguasphere Register, the Kurpfälzisches is often regarded as an additional subgroup of the Vorderpfälzischen.

Language area

The Vorderpfalz , located in the Rhine valley, is together with the southern adjoining southern Palatinate also the main language area of ​​the Vorderpfälzischen; however, the language boundaries are fluid, they partially overlap and cannot always be clearly defined.

The smaller part of the North Palatinate Uplands to the east of the Donnersberg is still part of the Upper Palatinate language area, while the middle and the western part clearly belong to the West Palatinate language area. In the northeast, the Vorderpfälzischen ends in southern Rheinhessen . According to one doctrine, the Upper Rhine forms the border in the east . Quite a few linguists , however, see it differently: In the Mannheim / Heidelberg area , today's Kurpfalz region , which only represents the eastern part of the historical Electoral Palatinate , Electoral Palatinate is spoken, and linguists do not place this idiom next to the Upper Palatinate, but include it as a subgroup .

In the south, the Upper Palatinate, with its variant spoken in the southern Palatinate, reaches slightly over the French border into northern Lower Alsace. To the west, the Vorderpfälzische in the Palatinate Forest gradually merges into the West Palatinate, whereby in the southwest the southern Palatinate variant still takes up almost the entire Dahner Felsenland .

Emigrants

In the 18th century in particular, emigrants, most of whom came from the historic Electoral Palatinate, brought their language to Pennsylvania and other North American areas. The descendants referred to as Pennsylvania Dutch still speak the internally “Deitsch” or “Mudderschbrooch” called Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German , which - especially in the spoken form - is quite similar to the recent Palatinate, especially the Vorderpfälzischen.

literature

  • Georg Drenda: Word atlas for Rheinhessen, Pfalz and Saarpfalz . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2014, ISBN 978-3-86110-546-6 .

References and comments

  1. ^ Rudolf Post: Palatinate. Introduction to a language landscape. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau / Pfalz 1992, ISBN 3-87629-183-6 , p. 20 f.
  2. ^ A b c David Dalby: The Linguasphere Register of the world's languages ​​and speech communities . Linguasphere Press, Hebron (Wales) 2000, ISBN 978-0-9532919-1-5 , pp. 430 (English).
  3. ↑ a b See the introduction to the article Electoral Palatinate Dialects .
  4. ↑ Cf. the section Structure and Limits of the article Südpfalz .
  5. ↑ See the introduction to the article Pennsylvania Dutch .