Mattenenglisch

Matt English ( dialect: Matteänglisch, matt english: Itteme - Inglische ) is a special or secret language which was spoken in the Matte district in Bern. Although occasionally made ​​terminological differentiation between Matt English for the used of the residents Matt and Matt Bern German secret language originally spoken in the dialect of the mat is convenient, but ultimately artificial.

The dialect of the mat (Matte Bern German )

While the city of Bern on a hill located on the Aare peninsula, the Matte district is located directly on the banks of the Aare and is clearly separated from the rest of the city, so that could emerge a distinct culture with a distinct dialect here. The Mätteler were originally laborers, fishermen, carters and more and thus belonged to the urban poor at. Foreign workers and merchants brought words from French and the Rotwelschen (and thus from the Hebrew and Jenischen ) with, and from the German vocabulary caused by change of vowel, consonant exchange and malapropisms whole new word formations. The result was a sociolect which clearly differed from the city of Bern German upper class.

A well-known example of the dialect is Matt Tunz mer e Ligu clay, Give me a piece of bread '. Tunz comes from French thunder, give ' Ligu to be gibberish, and clay is mediated by Rotwelschen Hebrew lechem, bread '.

Matt Bern German today

Although the dialect differences between the mat and the rest of Bern have now disappeared, but many expressions from the mat were incorporated into the German Bern, such as Gieu, boy '. Real Matt English, there were as long as the manual trading took place on the mat. Today it no longer exists in the everyday language of Mätteler. However, there are a lover club, where you can learn English Matt.

Matt English as a secret language

The matt British secret language is a language game in the style of the so-called Pig Latin. Made it is from the words of the dialect as follows:

• Starts the first syllable with a vowel, an h is inserted and then put the syllable at the end.
• At the beginning of an i is found.
• The last letter ( a vowel) is replaced by e.

To Bear is to iuechle to Irnbe or chlaue (steal). In linguistics, we call this type an IE language.