Zipserdeutsch
Zipserdeutsch is a collective term for the German dialects spoken by the Zipser Saxons (today only remnant) in the Spiš , Slovakia .
The Zipserdeutsche dialects belong partly to the Rhenish ( Outzäpsersch ) and partly to the Silesian dialects. First due to the forced Magyarization by the Hungarian state in the 19th and early 20th centuries, then as a result of the expulsion of the German population in 1945, the formerly German majority population became a minority, which was subsequently exposed to the assimilation of Slovak. Larger groups of speakers for Spiš German still exist in Hopgarten ( Chmeľnica ) and Metzenseifen ( Medzev ).
literature
- Valiska, Juraj: The Zipser German dialect of Chmeľnica (Hopgarten). Bratislava: Slovenské Pedagogické Naklad, 1967 (= Acta Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Safarikanae Presovensis, Philologica, 2).