Hamburgisch dialect
Spoken in
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic low German low Saxon Hamburger Platt
The term Hamburger Platt all spoken in Hamburg varieties of Low German are summarized, where " platform " is an abbreviation for Low German.
The Hamburger Platt is usually divided into two groups, in which the old (now barely visible ) reflected cultural contrast between Geest and Marsh:
As Geest Platt the dialects are known, which are spoken on the Geest, not directly on the Elbe, but further away, especially further north, because Hamburg is actually located on the north bank of the Elbe. Therefore, the Geest Platt also resembles strongly the Holstein Platt.
As march platform, however, the dialects are called to be in the march, the elbnahen flood plain spoken. Known is the Finkenwerder Platt, particularly because of Finkenwerder come many dialect writers, but there are also the four-country platform, the platform of the old country which Harburg Platt and others. The so-called port Platt, which was formerly much talk in the Port of Hamburg and St. Pauli, also belongs to this group.
The main differences lie in the vowels and in the realization of the phoneme b. A small, typical overview of the differences between Geest and the march variant:
The traditional distribution area of the Geest Platts urbanized largely today, and just on the actual urban area within the State of Hamburg Low German has a particularly hard time More common Platt still or belonging to Hamburg rural areas, such as the four-and marshlands in the old country, so just where marsh platform is spoken. Also in the (now in its old form no longer existing ) environment of the port workers, one of the last strongholds of Low German in Hamburg, march - Platt was spoken. Why does " Hamburger Platt" today usually this variant.
All subspecies of the Hamburg Platts belong to the northern Low German branch of the Low German language, the northern Lower Saxony. In Vierlanden but is also a certain ostniederdeutscher influence from the Mecklenburg present.
The vocabulary of the Hamburg dialects is recorded and described in the Hamburg dictionary.