Eastphalian language

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.

Eastphalian
Native toGermany
RegionLower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologeast2290[1]
Eastphalian (No.7) within the Low German (yellow/cream/brown) and Low Franconian (red/orange/pink) dialect area

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.
gollark: You can just hand out what some random people think is absolutely *needed* first, then stick the rest of everything up for public use, but that won't work either! Someone has to decide on the "needed", so you get into a planned-economy sort of situation, and otherwise... what happens when, say, the community kale farm decides they want all the remaining fertilizer, even when people don't want *that* much kale?
gollark: Planned economies, or effectively-planned-by-lots-of-voting economies, will have to implement this themselves by having everyone somehow decide where all the hundred million things need to go - and that's not even factoring in the different ways to make each thing, or the issues of logistics.
gollark: Market systems can make this work pretty well - you can sell things and use them to buy other things, and ultimately it's driven by what consumers are interested in buying.
gollark: Consider: in our modern economy, there are probably around (order of magnitude) a hundred million different sorts of thing people or organizations might need.
gollark: So you have to *vote* on who gets everything?

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


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