Re: I'm back, and an 'ow' question ...

 --- Andreas Johansson wrote:

> >There was "Kashubian", "Polabian" and maybe another. "Pomeranian"?
>
> There used to be a such language, but that's all I know about it.
AFAIK Pomeranian was spoken in the region called in Polish "Pomorze", which is
bluntly speaking everything East of the Oder, North of Poznan, and West of
Gdansk. I know nothing about the language, but I have the impression that it
was rather a Polish dialect than a language.
Kashubian is currently spoken only in the region north of Gdansk, for example
on the peninsula of Hel.
I'm quite positive the language in question is Polabian, since it was spoken
West of the Oder. Strange language, if you look at it.

> >You are saying the local Berliners said that e.g. "Pankow" should be
> >pronounced /'pANkoU/ not /'pANkOf/? I find that very strange. It's most
> >un-German. In fact it's most un-Slavic.
>
> I shan't swear to the exact pronuncation, but it certainly sounded
> diphthongized to me. And there certainly was no [f] in it.
I used to have a landlady, who had come to the Netherlands as a Jewish refugee
from Berlin in 1940. Her maiden name was Cunow, pronounced [k_hu:no].

Jan

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