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The Vistulan dialect (Template:Lang-de) was a dialect of Low Prussian, which belongs to Low German. The dialect was spoken in West Prussia, today in Poland. It had a border to Mundart der Weichselwerder. It was spoken around Jezioro Żarnowieckie (Zarnowitzer See), Gdańsk (Danzig) and Grudziądz (Graudenz).

Geography

It partly coincided with a transitional area of East Pomeranian dialect and Low Prussian. The transitional area would end at about Chojnice (Konitz). Other places within this area included Bytów (Bütow), Lębork (Lauenburg), Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) and Toruń (Thorn). Within Low German in West Prussia, there was a major bundle of isoglosses in roughly the line Brodnica-Gardeja-Nowe and continuing somewhere between Kościerzyna and Chojnice.

Phonology

In Gdańsk, it had High German a as ǫ before l in words such as ǫl for High German alt and hǫle for High German halten. Another typical example is mǫn for High German Mann. The dialect of Gdańsk also has mǭke for High German machen High German, nǭˠel for High German Nagel, šlǭˠen for High German schlagen inter alia. It had a and ä in cases such as nat and nät for High German Netz. It had ek ben I am for ek sī. In Gdańsk in originally open syllables before k and x, a became o:.

History

Numerous words in the Danzig area were from Dutch, in particular nautical and commercial vocabulary. Towards the end of the 18th century, the language spoken at home in long-established merchant families in Danzig was still Low German, this changed. Use in Danzig has since then been restricted to workers and small artisans. It was barely understood in privileged circles, but best by those who had the opportunity to hear it with their subordinates every day. In the countryside, Low German was still spoken by the landowners, if they preserved the rural way of life. In the second half of the 19th century, Low German had a considerable decline. Dialekt des Weichselgebietes is among the varieties on which Plautdietsch is based and has the greatest phonetic similarity to. Already in the age of the Teutonic Order there were Dutch colonists in Danzig. Low German with Dutch remnants was often still spoken in Danzig by Mennonite families at home in the first half of the 19th century.

See also

• Danzig German

References

1. ^ Besch, Werner; Knoop, Ulrich; Putschke, Wolfgang; Wiegand, Herbert E. (14 July 2008). Dialektologie. 2. Halbband. ISBN 9783110203332. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
2. "Dialekt-Karte_neu « atlas-alltagssprache". Archived from the original on 2021-01-10. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
3. Walther Mitzka: Kleine Schriften zur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeographie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 185
4. ^ Bernhard Jähnig and Peter Letkemann (eds.): Danzig in acht Jahrhunderten. Nicolaus-Copernicus-Verlag, 1985, p. 325
5. Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132
6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2021-02-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. ^ "Mennonitische Geschichte | Chortitza" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2021-02-23.

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• German dialects
• Languages of Poland
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