Английская Википедия:Hessian dialects
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Hessian (Шаблон:Lang-de) is a West Central German group of dialects of the German language in the central German state of Hesse. The dialect most similar to Hessian is Palatinate German (Шаблон:Lang-de) of the Rhine Franconian sub-family. However, the Hessian dialects have some features which set them somewhat apart from other West-Central German dialects.
Dialects
Hessian can be divided into four main dialects:Шаблон:Sfnp
- North Hessian (Шаблон:Lang, around the city of Kassel),
- Central Hessian (Шаблон:Lang, including the Marburg and Gießen areas),
- East Hessian (Шаблон:Lang, around Fulda),
- South Hessian (Шаблон:Lang, around Darmstadt).
To understand this division, one must consider the history of Hesse and the fact that this state is the result of an administrative reform.[1]
The urban New Hessian Regiolect of Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main area is based on the South Hessian dialect. In the Central Hessian dialect area, this regiolect is gradually replacing the traditional local dialects. Consonants are often softened. For instance, Standard German Шаблон:Lang ('apples') becomes Шаблон:Lang.
Classification
Hessian dialects are traditionally classified as part of Rhine Franconian dialect group, based on their reflexes of the High German consonant shift:Шаблон:Sfnp
- West Germanic medial/final p, t, k shifted to f, s, ch (Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang), and initial t together with medial/final tt shifted to (t)z (Шаблон:Lang). Low German to the north did not participate in this shift (Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang).
- The shift t > s regularly occurred in the pronouns Шаблон:Lang and Шаблон:Lang, unlike in Central Franconian to the west, which has Шаблон:Lang and Шаблон:Lang.
- West Germanic initial p and medial/final pp have remained plosives (Шаблон:Lang 'pound', Шаблон:Lang 'apple'), contrasting to the east with East Franconian, which—like Standard German—has affricates in both positions (Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang), and with Thuringian, which has shifted initial p to f, but retained pp as a plosive (Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang).
The main distinguishing feature between Hessian (in the traditional sense) and Palatine Rhine-Franconian is the retention of medial/final st, which became scht in the latter (Hessian: Шаблон:Lang vs. Palatine: Шаблон:Lang).
An alternative classification has been proposed by German dialectologist Peter Wiesinger. According to Wiesinger, North Hessian, East Hessian and Central Hessian betray closer historical links with Central Franconian and must be grouped together as Hessian (in a narrower sense) which is an independent dialect group within West Central German and thus not part of Rhine Franconian in spite of the same basic outcome of the High German consonant shift. On the other hand, South Hessian is not included in Wiesinger's Hessian, but remains included within Rhine Franconian.Шаблон:Sfnp
Characteristic features
North Hessian
Like Standard German, North Hessian has retained the Middle High German (MHG) endings -e and -en. In all other Hessian dialects, -e was lost, while -en was lost in East Hessian and became -e in Central and South Hessian. In the eastern North Hessian area, the MHG long vowels î, û, iu did not undergo New High German diphthongization (Шаблон:Lang 'times', Шаблон:Lang 'mice', Шаблон:Lang 'bride', cf. Standard German Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang).Шаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnp
Central Hessian
Central Hessian is characterized by a number of distinctive vowel shifts from MHG:Шаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnp
- The MHG diphthongs ie, uo, üe changed to [ɛɪ], [ɔʊ], [ɔɪ] (Шаблон:Lang 'letter', Шаблон:Lang 'good', Шаблон:Lang 'feet', cf. Standard German Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang)
- The MHG diphthongs ei, ou, öu merged to [aː] (Шаблон:Lang 'both', Шаблон:Lang 'dust', Шаблон:Lang 'joy', cf. Standard German Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang).
- The MHG long vowels ê, ô, œ were raised to [iː], [uː], [iː] (Шаблон:Lang 'toes', Шаблон:Lang 'red', Шаблон:Lang 'nasty', cf. Standard German Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang).
East Hessian
A characteristic feature of East Hessian are the long mid monophthongs [eː], [oː], [eː]/[øː] from the MHG diphthongs ie, uo, üe, e.g. Шаблон:Lang 'letter', Шаблон:Lang 'brother', Шаблон:Lang 'early', cf. Standard German Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lang).Шаблон:Sfnp. In the northern East Hessian area, MHG high long vowels were retained like in the adjacent area of North Hessian.Шаблон:Sfnp
See also
References
Bibliography
External links
- ↑ The German Dialects, a practical approach Шаблон:Webarchive, Wolfgang Näser, retrieved 19 July 2011