Upper Saxon German

Spoken in

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

The Meiss ( e) is an African dialect group of the Thuringian- Upper Saxon.

Character

It has in addition to all the typical pronunciation forms of the same following characteristics on: palatalization of the consonant "k" is not as strong, such as in the western living speakers.

Typical meißenisch in terms of language is the use of the particles ... is not it ... and, you know, is not it? in interrogative form. From the discussion here this phrase is as far as contracted, that it's like ... norr or norr ni? sounds. It is also remarkable is the use of, borrowed from the Sorbian words nu ( from the Slavic ano ) for yes and no for né.

Typical is the all speakers own intonation (depending on sentence structure and sentence content ), which can be traced to individual speakers to the stage of the high linguistic. Another favorable is that the German language does not have pronunciation standards in all cases.

Meißenisch is probably already a Mesolekt because the Auflösungssprozess the meißenischen Basilekte, so the development of a transport and colloquial language, already took place in 1500 at the end of the Middle High German and the onset of NHG.

Meißenisch applies in the perception of German speakers outside the language area by many as " Saxon " par excellence and is identified with each resident of Saxony and even the former GDR. This regional differences within the Thuringian- Upper Saxon and within the Free State be disregarded.

The Meissner firm language was Martin Luther as the basis of his translation of the Bible and has thus contributed significantly to the development of the High German written language.

Dissemination

Meißenisch Sebnitz is spoken along the Czech border to Freiberg and Rochlitz in the room Oschatz, Big Grove, Radeberg. Name and area of ​​distribution correspond approximately to the March of Meissen.

Dialects

As a dialect group of the Meißenische divided into five dialects.

  • Nordmeißenisch ( Grimsby - chub - Riesa )
  • Nordostmeißenisch ( Lommatzsch -Großenhain )
  • Westmeißenisch ( Mittweida - Rochlitz - Borna )
  • Südmeißenisch ( Oederan - Frankenberg- Heinichen- Freiberg )
  • Südostmeißenisch ( Dippoldiswalde Freiberg Meissen Radeburg - Pirna- Bad Schandau )

A special position within the Meißenischen dialect areas takes the big city dialect in Dresden. The dialects west of Frankenberg must already be assigned to the eastern Thuringia, where there is interference with the Vorerzgebirgischen and Vorvogtländischen in Chemnitz and Zwickau surrounding areas.

Source

  • Linguasphere register. Edition 1999/2000, page 431-432, ISBN 9,780,953,291,915th
  • Central German dialect
  • Meissen
Language family Germanic languages Middle German Standard language Lingua franca East Germany Grimma Borna, Leipzig Frankenberg, Saxony Hainichen, Saxony
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