Samlandic
{{Short description|German dialect}}
{{Infobox language
|name = Samlandic
|nativename = Samländisch
|state = Poland, 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
}}
Samlandic was a Low Prussian dialect of Low German. It was divided into Ostsamländisch and Westsamländisch.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWVxnfaQAhIC&q=Saml%C3%A4ndisch+Niederpreussisch&pg=PA892|title = Dialektologie. 2. Halbband|isbn = 9783110203332|last1 = Besch|first1 = Werner|last2 = Knoop|first2 = Ulrich|last3 = Putschke|first3 = Wolfgang|last4 = Wiegand|first4 = Herbert E.|date = 14 July 2008| publisher=Walter de Gruyter }} Both were from East Prussia.Thorwald Poschenrieder, Deutsch- und baltischsprachige Preußen des Memellandes, in: Collegium Europaeum Jenense an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Deutsch-litauische Kulturbeziehungen: Kolloquium zu Ehren von August Schleicher an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena vom 19. bis 20. Mai 1994. Herausgegeben von Gertrud Bense, Maria Kozianka, Gottfried Meinhold. Ausgabe 1995, Jena, 1995, p. 109–150, here esp. p. 130 (map Die Sprachen und deutschen Mundarten Ostpreußens)
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Geography
Westsamländisch was spoken West of Königsberg. Westsamländisch had a border with Ostsamländisch.
Ostsamländisch was spoken around Königsberg, Labiau and Wehlau. Ostsamländisch had a border with Natangian, Westsamländisch and Eastern Low Prussian.
Samlandic was spoken around Neukuhren and Heydekrug.Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Ferdinand Hirt, 1924, p. 127
Phonology
Westsamländisch has, in contrast to the remainder of Samlandic, for (I) go, (I) stand etc. jon, schton etc. O before R is spoken with a long vowel. It has ick sint meaning I am and tije for ten. Westsamländisch has long u as long ü. A is palatal.Walther Mitzka. Kleine Schriften zur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeographie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 324 It has {{lang|nds|dorx}} (with the ach-Laut) for High German durch, English through.Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 133
History
During the latter age of the Teutonic order, Latvian-Curonian fishermen came to nowadays Pionerski, Primorye, and Filino.Walther Ziesemer: Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Ferdinand Hirt, 1924, p. 128
Culture
Anke van Tharaw is a poem written in Samlandic.
Bibliography
- Wanda Nimtz-Wendlandt: Die Nehringer, Elwert, 1986. {{ISBN|3-7708-0834-7}}.
References
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