Natangian
{{Short description|Low Prussian dialect of Poland}}
{{Infobox language
|name = Natangian
|nativename =
|state = Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia (formerly Germany)
|region = East Prussia
|ethnicity=Germans
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=Germanic
|fam3=West Germanic
|fam4=North Sea Germanic
|fam5=Low German
|fam6=East Low German
|fam7=Low Prussian
|isoexception=dialect
}}
Natangian ({{lang|de|Natangisch}}) was a Low Prussian dialect, spoken in Natangen, East Prussia.Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Proben und Darstellung, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1924, p. 125 and 129 in the section 6. Das Niederpreußische
Geography
It was spoken in Natangen around Zinten, Bartenstein, Friedland, Drengfurt and Rastenburg.Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 137 (map Die ostpreußischen Mundarten) Natangian has or used to have a border with Breslausch (a High Prussian dialect), Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets, Ostsamländisch, Mundart des Ostgebietes, Westkäslausch and Ostkäslausch.{{cite book | editor-last1 = Bense | editor-first1 = Gertrud | editor-last2 = Kozianka | editor-first2 = Maria | editor-last3 = Meinhold | editor3-first = Gottfried | title = Deutsch-Litauische Kulturbeziehungen | date = 1995 | url = http://www.tausendschoen-verlag.de/PDF/Memelland.pdf | publisher = Universitätsverlag Druckhaus Mayer Jena | isbn = 3925978380}} 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.Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften. Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1968, p. 298
Phonology
In difference to Samländisch, vowel breaking of every long e to ei and every o to ou and the word dirch are characteristic.Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 129 It has significant features shared with Mundart der Elbinger Höhe.Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132 A is palatal.Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften zur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeographie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 324
References
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