East Central German

The East Middle German dialects are spoken primarily in the eastern provinces of the present Federal Republic of Germany. More than 70% of the local population live in areas where dialects of the East Middle German language are located.

Dialect groups of the East Middle

  • Lausitzisch - Südmärkisch in Berlin and south of it. Südmärkisch
  • Lausitzisch (Saxony and Brandenburg) Westlausitzisch (Saxony around Bischofswerda )
  • Neulausitzisch (Saxony around Bautzen and Hoyerswerda )
  • Oberlausitzisch (Saxony around Zittau and neighboring regions, and 1945 East Bohemia to Decin / Děčín )
  • Ostlausitzisch (Saxony around Görlitz and neighboring regions )
  • Niederlausitzisch (Saxony and Brandenburg around Cottbus and neighboring regions )
  • Thuringian Zentralthüringisch
  • Nordthüringisch
  • Nordostthüringisch
  • Ostthüringisch
  • Südostthüringisch
  • Ilmthüringisch
  • Westthüringisch
  • Nordmeißenisch
  • Nordostmeißenisch
  • Westmeißenisch
  • Südmeißenisch
  • Südostmeißenisch

As a result of the Second World War and the expulsion of most of the relevant dialect speakers, the following East Middle German dialects are starting almost down from 1945. In Poland and the Czech Republic they are now spoken only rarely. According to Polish 2002 census still use about 200,000 people in Poland German dialects.

  • Silesian Breslauisch
  • Brieg - Grottkauer dialect ( Brieg - Grottkauer -Silesia )
  • Gebirgsschlesisch
  • Glätzisch
  • Herbs dialect ( Kräuterschlesisch )
  • Neiderländisch
  • Upper Silesian
  • High- Prussian ( in East Prussia ) with Breslausch and Oberländisch

Special

As a result of the expulsion, many of the East Middle German dialects that existed until 1945 in Silesia, East Prussia, Bohemia and Moravia, perished in the root area or are threatened with the displaced people in the GDR and the Federal Republic of extinction.

Vocabulary

The vocabulary of East Middle German dialects is recorded and described in Brandenburg- Berlinischen dictionary ( berlin- Brandenburg and lausitzische dialects ), in the Thuringian dictionary ( Thuringian dialects ), in the Upper Saxon dialects dictionary ( Upper Saxon dialects ), the Silesian dictionary ( Silesian dialects ), in Sudeten German dictionary ( ostmitteldeutsche dialects of Bohemia, Moravia and Sudetenschlesien ) and in the Prussian Dictionary (high Prussian dialects ).

Examples of the vernacular

  • Feumel is a wooden cone made ​​of split firewood.
  • Porstube is a room in an outbuilding of the farm.
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