Central Thuringian

Spoken in

• Indo-European Germanic West Germanic high German Central German Thuringian- Upper Saxon Zentralthüringisch

Zentralthüringisch is a Thuringian dialect that is spoken mainly in the districts Sömmerda, Unstrut Hainich, Gotha, Ilm-Kreis and the city of Erfurt. As part of the Central German is one of the High German dialects.

Characteristics

The peculiarity of this dialect is the interplay of characteristic falling Zwielauten as " Voater " ( Father ) " faiarn " ( celebrate ) and " Wäasen " ( meadows ), a throaty sound, appended to nouns, adjectives and adverbs 'e', eg. "Bette " ( bed) and "fast" (fast), the syneresis of the letter sequence ' age', including " schleet " ( beats ) and " säät " ( says ), as well as frequent use of hard consonants with ' sch ' as in " datschn " ( touch ) and " Mutscheküpschn " ( ladybug).

History

The zentralthüringischen dialects correspond most closely to the archetype of Thuringia. Its main features are to be created by the influx of Slavonic elements in the early medieval East Frankish due to the subjugation and Christianization Sorbian tribes between the rivers Saale and Unstrut in the course of the Slavs campaigns Henry I. 928, and the subsequent emergence forming territorial feudal powers in the field of Thuringia. (see Könitz at Kneschke ) The neighboring Ilmthüringische is considered a very early form of Thuringia. The zentralthüringische dialect area refers to the historic county palatine of Saxony, the core area of ​​the country Thuringia county, the county Kevernburg and the Western domination of the county Schwarzburg, the county peers and the Electorate of Mainz city of Erfurt. In Längwitzgau the Zentralthüringische extends to the northern slopes of the Thuringian Forest.