Natangian
Appearance
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 Ostgebiets, Ostkäslausch and Breslausch. [3] In difference to Samländisch, vowel breaking of every long e and e after eei and oou and the word dirch are characteristic. [4]
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