Uerdingen line

  • In Poland, no or hardly any German is spoken since the expulsion of Germans after World War II.
  • In Brandenburg and Anhalt dialects and thus the isoglosses are now almost completely disappeared.
  • Isogloss wrong here match the Benrather line.
  • Isogloss here is part of the Rhenish fan.

The Uerdinger line or ik- I line referred to in the German language, the ik / I - isogloss. Variants are ek or ech.

North of this isogloss one says for example: " Ik goh noh Hus " and south of it is the high German " I " or the vernacular " genuine ", " esh " or " ish " part of the dialect spoken there: " Isch jon noh Huus " for" I'm going home. "

Course

The Uerdinger line separates u A. the northern Lower Franconian from Südniederfränkischen. It extends from the Belgian lion on the Dutch Roermond, Venlo and Viersen, crosses between Uerdingen and Duisburg- Mündelheim the Rhine, passing north of Mintard on the Ruhr River, on the through the countryside and meets again on Benrather line in Wuppertal or " maken-/machen-Linie ". Essentially, it describes, among other things, the demarcation of the boundary between winners and Sauerland, being a part of the municipality Wenden assigns to the southern -speaking world and here briefly again from the Benrather line (it is said there also: " ech make" ) separates. Further east, in Brandenburg it separates again from the Benrather line and runs south past Berlin here. There, they say: " i ( c ) k do ".

The Uerdinger line runs through the city of Krefeld, where the spoken in the sleeve area Hölsch Plott is already one of the northern Low Franconian " ik / eck " - speaking world, while used in Uerdingen and the rest of the city " esch / ish ".

The Uerdinger line represents merely a transition line between the ik- dialects in the Low German language area and the I - dialects of the Upper German -speaking dar. Whether the Low German speaking countries with their low Franconian and Low Saxon dialects begins here or further south at the Benrather line called, can be not moor in this transition region from the low - and High German way, which is determined by the dialect continuum, at a boundary line.

In the first case, the dialects can Uerdinger south of the line also the Central German languages ​​and dialects of High German associate, in the latter case the Low German dialects of Low Franconian (see also Panninger line).

  • Linguistic geography
  • Language border ( Germanic )
  • Dialectology of the German
  • Low German language
  • Isogloss
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