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Palatine German (Standard German: Pfälzisch, endonym: Pälzisch) is a group of Rhine Franconian dialects spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley, roughly in the area between Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, Alzey, Worms, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Mannheim, Odenwald, Heidelberg, Speyer, Landau, Wörth am Rhein and the border to Alsace and Lorraine, in France, but also beyond.
| Palatine German | |
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| Pälzisch | |
| Native to | Palatinate; Pennsylvania Dutch Country |
| Ethnicity | Palatine |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 400,000)[1] |
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| Dialects | |
| Latin (German alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pfl |
| Glottolog | pala1330 |
The English term Palatine refers to the Palatinate region (German: Pfalz). Almost all traditional dialects of the Palatinate belong to the Palatine dialect group, but the Palatine speech area also extends to the west and east into neighboring regions (Saarland, Kurpfalz, southern Hesse). The main dialect divisions within Palatine German are Westpfälzisch (also called Hinterpfälzisch) and Vorderpfälzisch (also called Ostpfälzisch).[2][3]
The Pennsylvania Dutch language is descended primarily from the Palatine German that was spoken by Palatines who emigrated to North America from the 17th to the 19th centuries and maintained their native language. Danube SwabiansinCroatia and Serbia also use many elements of Palatine German.
To the northwest, Palatine German is separated from Moselle Franconian by the das/dat-isogloss (Palatine German uses das or similar forms) and the absence of Rhenish pitch accent.[2][3] To the southeast, it borders on South Franconian, separated by the Appel/Apfel-line (Palatine German: Appel). Within the greater Rhine Franconian dialect area, the traditional defining isoglosses are the northern fescht/fest-line that separates Palatine German (fescht) from the Hessian dialects (fest), and the southern Haus/Hus-line that separates Palatine German (Haus) from Lorraine Franconian (Hus).[2]
Like other Rhine Franconian dialects, Palatine German has e-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final -e), n-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final n in the suffix -en) and /oː/ for earlier long a, e.g. Strooß/Strooße 'street'/'streets' (cf. Standard German Straße/Straßen). The major division of Palatine German into Westpfälzisch and Vorderpfälzisch is based on a bundle of distinguishing features, such as:[2][3]
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Here are some words in Palatine German with their Standard German equivalents:
| Vorderpfälzisch | Westpfälzisch | Standard German | English equivalent |
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| Mais | Mais | Mäuse | mice |
| Lais | Lais | Läuse | lice |
| Grumbeea | Grumbeer | Kartoffel | potato |
| Schnook | Schdechmick | Stechmücke | mosquito |
| Bääm | Bääm | Bäume | trees |
| Bää | Bää | Beine | legs |
| Schdää | Schdää | Stein | stone |
| soi | sei | sein | his (possessive) / to be |
| unsa | unser | unsere | ours |
| net (nit) | net | nicht | not |
| dowedder/dewedda | degeche | dagegen | against |
| Fisch (Fusch) | Fisch | Fisch | fish |
| ebbes | ebbes | etwas | something |
| Ärwett | Arwett | Arbeit | work |
| Doa | Dor | Tor | gate |
| Abbel | Abbel | Apfel | apple |
| hawwe | hann | haben | have |
| Haffe | Hawwe | Kochtopf | pot (saucepan) |
This sentence is pronounced in Vorderpfälzisch:
Isch habb's'm [habb es em] schunn vazehlt, awwa 'r [er] hat ma 's [es] nit geglaabt.
InWestpfälzisch, it would be the following:
Ich hann's'm schunn verzehlt, awwer er had mer's net geglaabt.
In Standard German, the sentence would read:
Ich habe es ihm schon erzählt, aber er hat es mir nicht geglaubt.
In English, it means:
I have already told [it to] him, but he didn't believe me.
Hasche aa Hunger? (Westpfälzisch)
Haschd ach Hunga? (Vorderpfälzisch)
Hast du auch Hunger? (Standard German)
Are you hungry too? (English)
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Grammatically, all Palatine dialects do not use the genitive case, which is replaced by the dative, with or without von, and most dialects have no imperfect tense but only the perfect.
