Erzgebirgisch
Sign in to saveErzgebirgisch (Standard ; Erzgebirgisch: ) is a (East) Central German dialect, spoken mainly in the central Ore Mountains in Saxony. It has received relatively little academic attention. Due to the high mobility of the population and the resulting contact with Upper Saxon, the high emigration rate and its low mutual intelligibility with other dialects, the number of speakers is decreasing.
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It sits within the topics Culture of the Ore Mountains, Dialect articles with speakers set to 'unknown' and Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code.
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- Upper Saxon
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Encyclopedic overview
41 sectionsContents
- Language area and history
- Linguistic features
- Subdialects
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Stress
- Morphology
- Nominal morphology
- Gender
- Case
- Number
- Articles
- Pronouns
- Personal pronouns
- Possessive pronouns
- Prepositions
- Adjectives
- Agreement
- Comparison
- Verbs
- Infinitive and participles
- Present tense
- Preterite
- Perfect, pluperfect
- Future
- Subjunctive
- Imperative
- Passive
- A sample of Erzgebirgisch speech (Lichtenstein dialect)
- Sample text
- Lexicon
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Other words
- Interjections
- References
- Literature
- Grammars and other linguistic publications
- Other literature
- External links
Erzgebirgisch (Standard ; Erzgebirgisch: ) is a (East) Central German dialect, spoken mainly in the central Ore Mountains in Saxony. It has received relatively little academic attention. Due to the high mobility of the population and the resulting contact with Upper Saxon, the high emigration rate and its low mutual intelligibility with other dialects, the number of speakers is decreasing.
== Language area and history == As the following sections will show, Erzgebirgisch is very close to Upper Saxon but also has commonalities with Upper German dialects.
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