Re: German orthography: long/short vowels

>
> Another one is `Spaß' = `fun'.  It is supposed to be [Spa:s], but I
> have [Spas].  The current spelling reform does not allow this
> pronunciation anymore, so this reform made the system a bit
> inconsistent for my dialect.
>
> **Henrik
>
For this I have [Spas] (but with half-long final [s]) too, but that might
be my own oversimplificational tendency - I have short vowel always before
scharfes S.

Apropos German dialects: does anyone (Henrik?) know of a good German
dialect atlas? Or perhaps a standard Hochdeutsch - Austrian dictionary or
somesuch? See, I'm having some difficulties determining the origins of
certain loanwords in Dalmatian, and I'm fairly certain they're from
German, and since Dalmatia was once part of Austria...

In other words: I want to make some Dalmatian loanwords from Austrian, and
I don't want to go from my head, because I say [jEnsl=] for "calf", and
that's not Austrian (I don't remember where I picked that up, to be
honest...), so I don't want accidentally to have, say, Swabian loanwords
in Dalmatian due to my Mix-German idiolect when there would never have
been an opportunity for such a thing to happen.


---frank

Replies