Eastphalian language

Eastphalian
Native to	Germany
Region	Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Low German West Low German Eastphalian; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	east2290[1]
	Eastphalian (No.7) within the Low German (yellow/cream/brown) and Low Franconian (red/orange/pink) dialect area

Eastphalian, or Eastfalian (German: Ostfälisch), is a dialect of West Low German (Low Saxon),[1] spoken in southeastern parts of Lower Saxony and western parts of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.

Geographical extent

The language area between the Weser and Elbe rivers stretches from the Lüneburg Heath in the north to the Harz mountain range and Weser Uplands in the south. It comprises Hanover Region, Brunswick and Calenberg Land as well as the Magdeburg Börde, including the cities of Hanover, Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Göttingen and Magdeburg. It roughly corresponds with the historic region of Eastphalia.

Classification

Eastphalian as a separate dialect was determined by 19th century linguistics, tracing it back to Old Saxon variants spoken in eastern parts of the medieval stem duchy of Saxony. Towards the Elbe region in the southeast, the language area is increasingly influenced by the High German consonant shift.

Subdivisions

Elbe Eastphalian (around Oschersleben and Haldensleben in the Magdeburg Börde between Helmstedt and Magdeburg)
Göttingisch-Grubenhagensch (around Göttingen, Northeim and Osterode am Harz
Heide Eastphalian (around Celle, with Northern Low Saxon elements)
Central Eastphalian is the Eastphalian subdialect spoken in a large area surrounding Braunschweig and Hanover.

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References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastphalian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastphalian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.