Chemnitz dialect
Not to be confused with Chemnitz German or a Chemnitz accent, the accent/regional variety of Standard German spoken in Chemnitz.
| Chemnitz dialect | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Germany |
| Region | Chemnitz |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Chemnitz dialect is the dialect of the city of Chemnitz and an urban variety of Vorerzgebirgisch, a variant of Upper Saxon German.[1]
Phonology
Main article: Chemnitz dialect phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Postalveolar | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | aspirated | kʰ | ||||
| unaspirated | p | t | k | |||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | χ | h | |
| Approximant | ʋ | l | j | |||
| Rhotic | ʁ | |||||
- Word-initially, the /t–k/ contrast is neutralized before /l/, which means that e.g. the word Kleid ('dress') can be pronounced as either [tleːt] or [kleːt].[2]
- Stops and fricatives are voiceless, whereas nasals and approximants are voiced.[3]
- /ʁ/ occurs only in onsets, and it has few possible pronunciations, which are in free variation with one another:[4]
Vowels
Monophthongs of the Chemnitz dialect, from Khan & Weise (2013:236–237). Red vowels are pharyngealized.
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||||||
| short | long | short | long | long | short | long | ||
| Close | iː | ʉː | ʊˤː | |||||
| Close-mid | ɪ | eː | ɵ | ɵː | ||||
| Mid | ɞ | ʌˤː | oˤ | oˤː | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɛː | ʌ | ʌː | ɔˤː | |||
| Near-open | aˤː | |||||||
- Unstressed /ɪ, ɛ, ɵ, ɞ, ʌ/ may all be reduced to [ə].[6]
- The pharyngealized vowels correspond to the sequences of vowel + /r/ in the standard language.[7]
- In cognates of some Standard German words, speakers fluent in Standard German occasionally produce [yː, ʏ, øː, œ], which contrast with /iː, ɪ, eː, ɛ/ as well as /ʉː, ɵ, ɵː, ɞ/, for instance Brüder [ˈpʁyːtoˤ] 'brothers'. In other cases, they are pronounced the same as /iː, ɪ, eː, ɛ/.[8]
| Ending point | ||
|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |
| Mid | ɞʏ̯ | |
| Open | ae̯ | aɵ̯ |
References
- 1 2 Khan & Weise (2013), p. 231.
- ↑ Khan & Weise (2013), p. 234.
- ↑ Khan & Weise (2013), p. 232.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Khan & Weise (2013), p. 235.
- ↑ Khan & Weise (2013), pp. 236–237.
- ↑ Khan & Weise (2013), p. 236.
- 1 2 Khan & Weise (2013), p. 237.
- ↑ Khan & Weise (2013), p. 238.
Bibliography
- Khan, Sameer ud Dowla; Weise, Constanze (2013), "Upper Saxon (Chemnitz dialect)" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association 43 (2): 231–241, doi:10.1017/S0025100313000145
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