Re: German Dialectology was: Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

Hi!

Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> writes:
> A question I guess mainly directed to Henrik:
>
> Is there anywhere where I can get a mapping of soundchanges
> (? differences?) from Standard High German to Austrian?
Hmm, I don't know a source from my head, but I see something in front
of me internal eye that I once read where sound changes for southern
German dialects where shown.  But I forgot where it was/is.  Because
I'm not used to Austrian too much, I think anything I could produce
from my head would be non-complete, overly generalised, and wrong.


> On a broader scale I think it would be interesting to look at a
> comparative chart of the differences between the German dialects.
It was something like that what I saw for southern German dialects
including Bavarian, but unfortunately, I've forgotten the source. :-(


> cant remember the url now...) and am curious as to whether any of the
> dialects have besides Bayrisch has as standardised an orthography as
> that;
No, because it is different from village to village.  I actually don't
know what Bavarian orthography is based on, since I think there is
also not only one dialect.


> I've seen Saechsisch written dialectally too, but didn't look very
> standardised...at any rate does anyone write in their dialect like they
> did in Luxembourg before the introduction of the standardised
> Letzebuergesch orthography?
Yes, no standards.

E.g. the dialect my grandmother spoke (unfortunately moribund now I
would think: I'm one of the few of my generation that still understand
it, but I cannot speak it), is very different from what is spoken 5km
away.

My grandma: Kuier mol wuier Platt.
            [kUIj6 mO:l vUIj6 plat]

5km away:   K

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