West Palatinate dialect group
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West Palatinate belongs to the Palatinate dialects and is a dialect group of Rhine Franconian within West Central German , which is spoken in parts of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Together with the Upper Palatinate and the Electoral Palatinate , it forms the Palatinate dialect group.
Linguistic geography
variants
The Linguasphere Register lists nine dialects under the West Palatinate (52-ACB-de) :
- 52-ACB-dea: Rhine Franconian in Saarland, see dialects in Saarland
- 52-ACB-deb: Westrichisch (Rhineland-Palatinate, between Pirmasens , Kaiserslautern and Zweibrücken )
- 52-ACB-dec: Palatinate-Bergländisch (Rhineland-Palatinate, in the North Palatinate Bergland )
- 52-ACB-ded: Pfälzer-Wäldisch (Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Palatinate Forest )
- 52-ACB-dee: Black Forest High Forest (Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Black Forest High Forest )
- 52-ACB-def: Idarwäldisch (Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Idarwald )
- 52-ACB-deg: Hunsrückisch (Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Hunsrück )
- 52-ACB-deh: Middle Country (Rhineland-Palatinate, along the Nahe )
- 52-ACB-dei: Rheinhessisch (Rhineland-Palatinate, in Rheinhessen )
Language area
Almost the entire West Palatinate , the central and western (larger) part of the North Palatinate , a large area in the east of the Saarland as well as areas in the Hunsrück , on the Nahe and in the west of Rheinhessen are the main language areas of West Palatinate; however, the language boundaries are fluid, they partially overlap and cannot always be clearly defined.
Emigrants
In Rio Grande do Sul , the southernmost federal state of Brazil , descendants of German emigrants still speak Riograndens Hunsrückish . In the absence of funding, however, the use of the dialect is steadily declining, so that linguistic islands emerge that are only loosely connected to one another.
literature
- Georg Drenda: Word atlas for Rheinhessen, Pfalz and Saarpfalz . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2014, ISBN 978-3-86110-546-6 .
See also
References and comments
- ^ David Dalby: The Linguasphere Register of the world's languages and speech communities . Linguasphere Press, Hebron (Wales) 2000, ISBN 0-9532919-1-X , pp. 430 (English).
- ↑ Cf. the section on the origin of the article Riograndenser Hunsrückisch .