Eastphalian dialect

Spoken in

• Indo-European Germanic West Germanic low German low Saxon Eastphalian

Eastphalian is a major dialect of Low German, in Lower Saxony approximately south-east of a line Uelzen - Celle - Hannover - Hagen - Biickeburg ( including these cities), so in the southern Lüneburg Heath, in the Hanover, Hildesheim, Braunschweig and Göttingen and Saxony - Anhalt is spoken in the Magdeburg region and in the northeastern and northern Harz / Harz Foreland (or was ), thus in a large part of the historic Ostfalens.

Description

In contrast to the northern Lower Saxony, which occurs more frequently on radio and television and even has a larger coherent language area, Eastphalian is spoken by only a few, mostly older people, mainly in the domestic sector and in dialect groups.

The term comes from the Eastphalian linguistics of the 19th century, the first time almost everywhere concerned with the dialects in this room and this here ( partly) described similarities and peculiarities noted. Since this can be partly up to the ( sparse ) written sources of altniederdeutschen time trace, which has since vanished Name of the eastern part of the former Old Saxon duchy for this purpose has been reactivated. - Although this name since the end of the 20th century also finds use in other contexts (eg Deuregio Ostfalen ), he has in the daily life of the region more than marginal. The same applies to the derived name of the dialect: the few active speakers talk / k ȫ r'n Platt, to distinguish it from other variants are paraphrases as our / use and your / Jue Platt, as well as the old Gau and landscape names barely still in use (apart from names like Papenteich / Popp ' ndīk that were used in creating the united communities from 1974).

In Ostfälischen the object pronouns receive a K ( mik and dik ), which is missing in the North Low German (mi and di, respectively for high German to me and me and you and you). Also be st and sp spoken as deleted and SCHP Except in Braunschweiger Land, as well as in the Hildesheim country and other regions. Beyond the limit of Halberstadt to Magdeburg the prevailing German phonetics. ( It " schtolpern de Lüe ower'n schpitzen Schtein. " ) The Ostfälische performs the usual for some Low German areas diphthongisation by ( täuwen / täuw ' s ( wait ) compared to the usual in most regions Toeven ) and also the assimilation of D by L and N. ( hille ( part), by mnd hilde ( quickly ). Münner Platt, the dialect Mündens ).

The Ostfälische is a more varied dialect whose vocabulary and phonology in relatively small areas may already have larger differences. So there is a form of word " but " at least three variants in Ostfälischen: aver aver and obber. Because of this diversity, the dialect can also be equal to the Westphalian, not just verschriftlichen.

The vocabulary of Ostfälischen is described in Lower Saxony and in Mittelelbischen dictionary.

Regional variations

• Brunswick Platt ( in the vicinity of the town of Brunswick, not to be confused with Braunschweigisch )

• Bode dialect ( in the valley of the Bode from the Upper Harz up to Oschersleben )

• Calenberger Platt ( in the area between Hanover, Hameln and Alfeld )

• Elbostfälisch ( in Salzlandkreis and in the eastern part of the district Borde; transitional dialect of Upper Saxony and Mark 's Brandenburg )

• Göttingisch - Grubenhagensch ( as in the districts of Northeim, Einbeck, Göttingen and Osterode am Harz )

• Heideostfälisch (north of the country districts of Celle and Gifhorn as well as in the district of Uelzen; transitional dialect to the north of Lower Saxony )

• Hildesheimer platform (for instance in the district of Hildesheim and in the southern part of the district Peine )

• Wood land Eastphalian ( in parts of the district Borde )

• Huy- dialect ( in parts of the county resin )

• Northern Eastphalian ( between Peine and Celle, ie in parts of the same counties Peine and Celle in the East Region of Hannover )

• Münnisch dialect ( in Hann. Munden )

• Oker - dialect ( in the district of Goslar )

• Eastern Eastphalian (as in the districts of Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel )

• Pape Teicher Platt ( in the southern part of the district Gifhorn )

Linguistic Features

The mentioned personal pronouns dynamics and dik (compared to North Low German mi and di, Nedersaksisch, ostfriesisch each ) are only examples because this difference also for the forms ȫ n ( ĕ ) üsch and jük applies ( nordniederdt. em, u [n ] s, jo [ ju ], hochdt. him / it, us, you). Although the Ostfälische agrees with many Low German dialects agree (with exceptions, for example in southern Westphalia ) that has collapsed in the mentioned forms of the dative with the accusative (for further details / languages ​​here → personal pronouns of the Germanic languages ​​), its specificity is but that has prevailed in all these forms of accusative over the dative ( in the north of Lower Saxony, it is the other way around ). In Ostfälischen itself ( USIC see althochdt. Unsih, Old-English. [ Next U.S.] ) has the form üsch an accusative of the first person plural received, see also High Alemannic üs, South Bavarian ins.

Another feature of the Ostfälischen is the rest -like preservation of the prefix ge - as - ĕ the past participle ( past participle ) of the verb; because this prefix is lost in Heideostfälischen, is for example near Celle whose wǟn been ' southern ĕwǟ (s' ) n [ əvɛ ː (z ) n] against.

A striking difference between the Ostfälischen and all other Low German dialects is the absence (or undo ) the Tondehnung in an open syllable before < -el ,-en, er>, in the following syllable, eg Eastphalian Löpp'l [ lœpl̩ ] bett'n [ bɛtn̩ ], Peppa [ pɛpɐ ] (, spoon, little, pepper ') compared to North low Saxon Läpel [ lɛ ː pl], begged [ bɛ ː tn ], Päper [ pɛ pɐ ː ].

The abovementioned " unusual words" the Ostfälischen include Ǖtschĕ (, Frog ', north Nieders. Pogg ), Kempe (, Boar, north Nieders. Äver, Ever ) and Hāilĕbårt / Hallĕbot ( stork ', north Nieders. Aadboor etc.). But there are also conspicuous equations ( inherited similarities ) with the English and / or Norwegian: Snake (, grass snake '; mnd of snake, serpent, which still obtains in other dialects in original meaning.) - Norway. SNOK, Eng. snake, Drake (, Drake ') - engl. drake, coulters (, magpie ') - norway. skjor ( Bokmål: skjære ), Mul [ mʊl ] (, Mole ') - engl. mole.

Also in balancing the altniederdeutschen According oppositions, particularly in the reduction of groups in an open syllable vowels, the Ostfälische applies its own position by While simplified stronger than the Westphalian ( which knows in its southern dialects no reduction ), but does not go so far as the core area of ​​the Northern low Saxon ( where are remains of the original eight vowel phonemes only three ). Despite the diversity of sounds in detail the most ostfälischen dialects therefore have a common phonetic system. (In this case remains next to the Heideostfälischen also Göttingisch - Grubenhagensche - herein arises the East Westphalian - außenvor ).