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Natangian (Natangisch) was a Low Prussian dialect, spoken in Natangen, East Prussia.

Geography

It was spoken in Natangen around Zinten, Bartenstein, Friedland, Drengfurt and Rastenburg. Natangian has or used to have a border with Breslausch (a High Prussian dialect), Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets, Ostsamländisch, Mundart des Ostgebietes, Westkäslausch and Ostkäslausch. There was a border of Prince-Bishopric of Warmia to the state of the Teutonic Order, which also was the border of Natangian to Ostkäslausch.

Phonology

In difference to Samländisch, vowel breaking of every long e to ei and every o to ou and the word dirch are characteristic. It has significant features shared with Mundart der Elbinger Höhe. A is palatal.

References

1. Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Proben und Darstellung, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1924, p. 125 and 129 in the section 6. Das Niederpreußische
2. Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 137 (map Die ostpreußischen Mundarten)
3. Bense, Gertrud; Kozianka, Maria; Meinhold, Gottfried, eds. (1995). Deutsch-Litauische Kulturbeziehungen (PDF). Universitätsverlag Druckhaus Mayer Jena. ISBN 3925978380.
4. Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften. Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1968, p. 298
5. Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 129
6. Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132
7. Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften zur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeographie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 324

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