Central Thuringian
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Central Thuringian is a Thuringian dialect that is mainly spoken in the districts of Sömmerda , Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis , Gotha and Ilm-Kreis as well as in the city of Erfurt . As part of Central German, it is one of the High German dialects .
Characteristic
The peculiarity of this dialect is the interplay of characteristic falling Zwielauten as "Voater" (father), "faiarn" (celebrate) and "Wäasen" (Grassland), guttural sound image, appended to nouns, adjectives and adverbs 'e' z. B. "Bette" (bed) and "Schnell" (fast), the syneresis of the letter sequence 'age', including "Schleet" (strikes) and "säät" (says), as well as frequent use of hard consonants with 'sch' as in “datschn” (touch) and “Mutscheküpschn” (ladybird).
history
The Central Thuringian dialects correspond most closely to the archetype of Thuringian . Its main features are said to have arisen from the flow of Slavic elements into the early medieval East Franconian as a result of the submission and Christianization of Sorbian tribes between Saale and Unstrut in the course of the Slavic campaigns of Henry I in 928 and the subsequent development of territorial feudal powers in the area of Thuringia. (cf. Koenitz bei Kneschke) The neighboring Ilmthuringian is also regarded as a very early form of Thuringian. The central Thuringian dialect area corresponds to the historic Palatinate County of Saxony , the core area of the Landgraviate of Thuringia , the County of Kevernburg or the western supremacy of the County of Schwarzburg , the County of Gleichen and the Electoral Mainz city of Erfurt. In the Längwitzgau region, Central Thuringia extends to the northern slopes of the Thuringian Forest .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. In: Vol. 5, 1861, pp. 202-203 , accessed on February 24, 2012 .
literature
- Wolfgang Lösch among others: Small Thuringian Dictionary . Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig, 1995. ISBN 3-379-01521-0 .
- Margot Baum: Behringer dialect . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86777-121-4 .