Natangian

Short description: Low Prussian dialect of Poland

Natangian

Native to| Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia (formerly Germany)
Region| East Prussia
Ethnicity| Germans

Language family

Indo-European

* Germanic
* West Germanic
* North Sea Germanic
* Low German
* Northern Low German[citation needed]
* Low Prussian
* Natangian

Language codes
ISO 639-3| –

Natangian (Natangisch) was a Low Prussian dialect, spoken in Natangen, East Prussia.[1]

## Geography

It was spoken in Natangen around Zinten, Bartenstein, Friedland, Drengfurt and Rastenburg.[2] Natangian has or used to have a border with Breslausch (a High Prussian dialect), Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets, Ostsamländisch, Mundart des Ostgebietes, Westkäslausch and Ostkäslausch.[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. ↑ Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten. Proben und Darstellung, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1924, p. 125 and 129 in the section 6\. Das Niederpreußische
2. ↑ Walther Ziesemer, Die ostpreußischen Mundarten, Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 137 (map Die ostpreußischen Mundarten)
3. ↑ Deutsch-Litauische Kulturbeziehungen. Universitätsverlag Druckhaus Mayer Jena. 1995. ISBN 3925978380. http://www.tausendschoen-verlag.de/PDF/Memelland.pdf.
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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