Waller Platt
The Wäller Platt is the dialect spoken in most of the Westerwald in northeastern Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the southern part of the Moselle-Franconian group, which is distributed along the Moselle , in the southern Eifel , in the Westerwald and along the central Sieg . It thus belongs to the Central German dialects , i.e. those among the High German in which the second or High German sound shift is only incomplete.
Similarities, differentiation, varieties
The Wäller Platt has similarities with the Sejerlänner Platt to the north and the Hessian dialects in the Dillenburg area and the Hinterlander Platt or the Wittgensteiner Platt . The Platt from the High Westerwald , the Vorderwesterwald and the Unterwesterwald differ significantly in terms of some features and words. As is usual in the dialect continuum , there are always at least small linguistic differences in the dialect from one place to practically every one of its neighboring places.
Endangering the dialect
As in other dialect areas, in the period since the Second World War, the maintenance and transmission of dialects has been greatly reduced or neglected in favor of a regiolect close to standard German . "Grandma still chatters in the broad" Wäller Platt ", the mother" tries "and the pupil" speaks "," wrote a member of a Wäller dialect association.
pronunciation
The pronunciation of the Wäller Platt has special features:
- P, T, K, S
- Voiceless (hard) consonants of German are spoken voiced (soft) in the Wäller Platt, as in the neighboring Hessian and similarly in the Franconian and northern Bavarian language areas.
- R.
- The Wäller Platt uses an articulation of the R that is somewhat peculiar for German standards, it is not rolled, but is articulated with a tongue position similar to the approach to rolling far back, so it sounds a bit dull and more guttural than the American R.
- OA
- Similar to the Palatinate dialects, the Wäller Platt knows a vowel usually written with the letter sequence OA , which is long and slightly nasal with a sound between the O from “Rote” and the O from “Rotte” but articulated closer to the latter. It occurs for example in: 's roant = it's raining.
- ÄI, EJ
- In addition to the diphthong common in German , for which the spellings EI, AI, EY and AY exist, there is another one, which is usually written ÄI or sometimes EJ and which corresponds to the AY from the English May .
Words
- Abbe = grandpa
- scheppert = stupid
- Gaass = goat
- wörd = will
For some southern German forms, the Wäller Platt is their northernmost occurrence, such as:
- ea comes = he comes
- Gusch , Gosch , Goschn = mouth, mouth
- zwa , zwaa = two
literature
- Christian Heger: Wäller Platt. History, grammar and vocabulary of the Westerwald dialect . Husum 2016.
- Hessen-Nassau folk dictionary. From the collections created and administered by F. Wrede for a Hessen-Nassau dictionary . Started by Luise Berthold , continued by Hans Friebertshäuser and Heinrich J. Dingeldein . Marburg 1927ff.
- August Höfer: The Nassau Language. In: Karl Jacobi (Hrsg.): Nassauisches Heimatbuch. Images from the nature of the country, the historical and cultural life of its inhabitants . Wiesbaden 1913, pp. 661-680.
- Ännchen Jung-Eisel / Walter Heep: Changing dialects. A contribution to dialect studies in the central Westerwald . Limburg an der Lahn 1985.
- Joseph Kehrein: Folk Language and Dictionary of Nassau . Leipzig 1891 ( Google Books - US , Internet Archive )
- Karl Christian Ludwig Schmidt: Westerwäldisches Idiotikon, or collection of the idiotisms common in the Westerwalde, with etymological notes and the comparison of other old and new Germanic dialects . Hadamar and Herborn 1800. ( Google Books (a) , Google Books (b) , Google Books (c) )
Web links
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- ↑ Karl Kessler on archived copy ( memento of the original from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last viewed on December 12, 2010.
