Re: R: German dialectology

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Mangiat wrote:

> A few questions:
>
> 1) where was High German originally spoken? Is there a particular dialect
> playing an important role in NHG's development (as Fiorentino for Italian)?
I don't know where it was originally spoken, but I do know that in the
18th century when they first started thinking about a pure HG then
everyone went to Sachsen to study it, so Saechsisch had a great influence
on NHG.

>
> 2) where does the HG / LG division lies, today?
To me this is hard to tell, I think more there isn't really a border, but
one dialect melts into the next.

>
> 3) how is it possible that Hannover, in the North, speaks the clearest
> version of High German?
>
> 4) are dialects in Germany well alive? In Switzerland they are - people
> generally can't speak properly German... /'Abb@R@ zi: 'kYnn@ nu@R
> 'Svitts@RdutS Sprex@/.
some places, yes. In the North it seems, not really. Schwabisch and
Bairisch are quite alive and well, adn Saechsisch too, but Saechsisch gets
ridiculed and made fun of, and even some Saxonians think it is ugly...

-------ferko
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