Natangian

Natangian was Low Prussian dialect of Low German. It is from East Prussia. The name is from the Natangians, a tribe of the Old Prussians.[1]

Natagian
Natangisch-Bartisch
Native toPoland (formerly Germany)
RegionEast Prussia
EthnicityGermans
Language codes
ISO 639-3–

Geography

It was spoken around Kornevo, Bartoszyce, Pravdinsk, Srokowo and Kętrzyn.[2] Natangian has or used to have a border with Standard German, Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets, Westkäslausch, Ostsamländisch, Mundart des Ostgebietes, Ostkäslausch and Breslausch.[3] There was a border of Prince-Bishopric of Warmia to the state of the Teutonic Order, which also was the border of Natangian to Ostkäslausch.[4]

Phonology

In difference to Samländisch, vowel breaking of every long e to ei and every o to ou and the word dirch are characteristic.[5] It has significant features shared with Mundart der Elbinger Höhe.[6] A is palatal.[7]

References
  1. "Mundartgruppen in ehemaligen Ostpreußen". March 2012.
  2. Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 137
  3. Bense, Gertrud; Kozianka, Maria; Meinhold, Gottfried, eds. (1995). Deutsch-Litauische Kulturbeziehungen (PDF). Universitätsverlag Druckhaus Mayer Jena. ISBN 3925978380.
  4. Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften. Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1968, p. 298
  5. Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 129
  6. Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132
  7. Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften zur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeographie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 324


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