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Re: German orthography: long/short vowels

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Friday, October 12, 2001, 12:06
> > 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

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