> > 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.
>
As I am with Platt...
> > 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.
>
IIRC it was based on Muenchen 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.
I remember reading that Letzebuergers were quite upset when the
standardisation was introduced, because it meant that they couldn't sell
their native language correctly!
>
> 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: Küör mol wedder Platt.
> [ky96 mO:l wEd6 plat]
>
> `Speak Lower German (the name of the language: Platt) again!'
i figured the 'mol wedder Platt' part out but I'm afraid I wouldn't
understand a word your grandma would say.
-------ferko
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