Natangian
Natangian is a part of Low Prussian, belonging to Low German. It is from East Prussia. The name is from the Natangians, a tribe of the Old Prussians. [1] It is or used to be spoken around Kornevo, Bartoszyce, Pravdinsk, Srokowo and Kętrzyn. [2] Natangian has or used to have a border with Standard German, Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets, Westkäslausch, Ostsamländisch, Mundart des Ostgebietes, Ostkäslausch and Breslausch. [3] In difference to Samländisch, vowel breaking of every long e to ei and every o to ou and the word dirch are characteristic. [4] It has significant features shared with Mundart der Elbinger Höhe.[5] There was a border of Prince-Bishopric of Warmia to the state of the Teutonic Order, which also was the border of Natangian to Ostkäslausch.[6] A is palatal. [7]
Notes
- ^ http://zeitung.pl/mundartgruppen-in-ehemaligen-ostpreusen/
- ^ Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 137
- ^ http://www.tausendschoen-verlag.de/PDF/Memelland.pdf
- ^ Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 129
- ^ Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132
- ^ Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften. Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1968, p. 298
- ^ Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften zur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeographie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 324
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