Global InformationWerdersch information
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| Werdersch | |
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| Native to | Poland, Russia (formerly Germany) |
| Region | Vistula river islands |
| Ethnicity | Germans |
Language family | Indo-European
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Werdersch (German: Werdersch, Mundart der Weichselwerder) is a subdialect of Low Prussian, which itself is a subdialect of Low German. This dialect is spoken in Poland and was spoken in the former province of West Prussia. Werdersch is closely related to Nehrungisch and Plautdietsch.[1]
Its name derives from the Weichselwerder (lit. 'Vistula River islands'), which are Żuławy Gdańskie (between Wisła Gdańska and Gdańskie Wyżyny) and Żuławy Malborskie (German: Großes Werder; between Vistula, Szkarpawa, Vistula Lagoon, and Nogat).[2]
It also was spoken West of Vistula river.[3]
The dialect spoken in the Werder at that time is very similar to the dialect of Molotschna.[4] The distinctive features of Molotschna-Plautdietsch as opposed to Chortitza-Plautdietsch are given at Plautdietsch#Varieties. Its eastern border was to Oberländisch, a High Prussian variety.[5]
- ^ Penner (2009), p. 27.
- ^ Quiring (1924).
- ^ Roslyn Burns, Contrasting Spaces in Plautdietsch: Language Variation and Change, 2021 ([1]) [page needed]
- ^ Christopher Douglas Cox (2015). "Quantitative perspectives on variation in Mennonite Plautdietsch" (PDF). Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta. Retrieved 2023-04-02. [a doctor's thesis]
- ^ Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 133, 137