Re: Questions about German Dialects
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 26, 2004, 15:42 |
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On Sunday 26 September 2004 05:47, Joe wrote:
> Well, a question, really. Firstly, does anyone know where I can get
> some descriptions of the various German dialects. In English,
> preferably, but German will do fine.
>
> And, secondly, just for the short term - can anyone describe some
> features of the East Franconian and Thuringian dialects for me?
> Especially those that seperate it from Standard German(which I suppose
> they're not too different from...)
When I took a class in German dialects oh so many years ago, we used the
dtv-Atlas zur deutschen Sprache (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag) which has maps
and such, and a very thick course reader, which I might still have somewhere.
I'd start with the Atlas, though.
-S
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