Vogtländisch dialect

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• Indo-European Germanic West Germanic German Upper German and Middle German languages ​​and dialects Vogtland region

Vogtland region is a set of dialects that are spoken mainly in the Saxon Vogtland.

History

Especially in rural areas, you can hear the melody of this peculiar dialect. In addition to the Lausitz, it is primarily the Erzgebirge and the Vogtland, which still have relatively distinct dialect areas. The result is a relationship Erzgebirge and Vogtland dialect of the settlement history of these areas. There were three settlers currents: in the 12th and 13th centuries, they opened up the territory inhabited by the Sorbs. From the Upper Palatinate was the first settlement shaft and handed to southern Vogtland. The second came from Franconia and another from central Germany. This was followed by the emergence of political administrative districts - a linguistically closed area. Over the centuries, three major dialect areas were formed.

Distribution area

Kernvogtländisch

Kernvogtländisch is an East Frankish dialect, which is spoken especially in the area around Plauen, Auerbach Oelsnitz and in most of the Saxon Vogtland.

Nordvogtländisch

To the north there is a larger transition region into Südostthüringische, which is called Nordvogtländisch.

Südostvogtländisch

In the area around Schoeneck and Klingenthal the dialect goes as Südostvogtländisch the Erzgebirge. A special feature of these dialects is primarily the long-drawn and partly over-emphasized pronunciation of vowels - " singing " - which is most pronounced in the upper Göltzschtal to Auerbach. These dialects provide as part of a dialect continuum, a transition area from the East Franconian to the Upper Saxon dar. So you can find - at least in the Südostobervogtländischen - here the word hoa (o and a are together as a medium- long vowel, which lies between a and o, spoken, one in high German Phon not used ), which is used by dialect speakers as a synonym for "yes" or as an affirmative modal particles.

Südvogtländisch

Wohlbach - - Gunzen - Südvogtländisch line Freiberg south High fire spoken. Here is a North Bavarian dialect of clearly stands out from the rest of dialects. Besides rolled r especially the diphthongs are formative. There is an almost abrupt language border to the remaining dialects, in particular for Zwotatal out.