Westkäslausch

Westkäslausch

Westkäslausch

Low Prussian dialect of Poland

Westkäslausch was a Low Prussian dialect spoken in East Prussia, Germany (now Poland). It has features of Eastphalian, Westphalian and East Pomeranian dialect. [1]

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Geography

Westkäslausch used to have borders to Natangian, Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets and Breslausch (a High Prussian dialect).[2] Westkäslausch was spoken in an area having Mehlsack as a kind of midpoint.[3] Westkäslausch does not have a border to Ostkäslausch.[2]

Phonology

It has d between vowels as r.[4] Diphthongization seen in Natangian is mostly also present in Westkäslausch.[5]

Grammar

It has the preterite forms kam and nam.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Mitzka, Walther. Grundzüge nordostdeutscher Sprachgeschichte. Elwert, 1959, p. 50, 54
  2. [2]
    Thorwald Poschenrieder, Deutsch- und baltischsprachige Preußen des Memellandes, in: Collegium Europaeum Jenense an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Deutsch-litauische Kulturbeziehungen: Kolloquium zu Ehren von August Schleicher an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena vom 19. bis 20. Mai 1994. Herausgegeben von Gertrud Bense, Maria Kozianka, Gottfried Meinhold. Ausgabe 1995, Jena, 1995, p. 109–150
    "Memelland.pdf" (PDF). www.tausendschoen-verlag.de. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  3. [3]
    Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 130
  4. [4]
    Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132
  5. [5]
    Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 131
  6. [6]
    Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132
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