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German dialect
Samlandic
Samländisch
Native toPoland, Russia (formerly Germany)
RegionEast Prussia
EthnicityGermans
Language familyIndo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3–

Samlandic was a Low Prussian dialect of Low German. It was divided into Ostsamländisch and Westsamländisch. Both were from East Prussia.

Geography

Westsamländisch was spoken West of Königsberg. Westsamländisch had a border with Ostsamländisch.

Ostsamländisch was spoken around Königsberg, Labiau and Wehlau. Ostsamländisch had a border with Natangian, Westsamländisch and Eastern Low Prussian.

Samlandic was spoken around Neukuhren and Heydekrug.

Phonology

Westsamländisch has, in contrast to the remainder of Samlandic, for (I) go, (I) stand etc. jon, schton etc. O before R is spoken with a long vowel. It has ick sint meaning I am and tije for ten. Westsamländisch has long u as long ü. A is palatal. It has dorx (with the ach-Laut) for High German durch, English through.

History

During the latter age of the Teutonic order, Latvian-Curonian fishermen came to nowadays Pionerski, Primorye, and Filino.

Culture

Anke van Tharaw is a poem written in Samlandic.

Bibliography

References

  1. Besch, Werner; Knoop, Ulrich; Putschke, Wolfgang; Wiegand, Herbert E. (14 July 2008). Dialektologie. 2. Halbband. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110203332.
  2. ^ Thorwald Poschenrieder, Deutsch- und baltischsprachige Preußen des Memellandes, in: Collegium Europaeum Jenense an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Deutsch-litauische Kulturbeziehungen: Kolloquium zu Ehren von August Schleicher an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena vom 19. bis 20. Mai 1994. Herausgegeben von Gertrud Bense, Maria Kozianka, Gottfried Meinhold. Ausgabe 1995, Jena, 1995, p. 109–150, here esp. p. 130 (map Die Sprachen und deutschen Mundarten Ostpreußens)
    "Memelland.pdf" (PDF). www.tausendschoen-verlag.de. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  3. ^ Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Ferdinand Hirt, 1924, p. 127
  4. Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften zur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeographie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 324
  5. Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 133
  6. Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Ferdinand Hirt, 1924, p. 128


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