Chemnitz dialect

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

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Native to Germany Glottolog None		Region Chemnitz

Language family Indo-EuropeanGermanicWest GermanicHigh GermanCentral GermanEast Central GermanUpper Saxon GermanVorerzgebirgischChemnitz dialect

Chemnitz dialect is a distinct German dialect of the city of Chemnitz and an urban variety of Vorerzgebirgisch, a variant of Upper Saxon German.

Consonants

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].

Stops and fricatives are voiceless, whereas nasals and approximants are voiced.

/ʁ/ occurs only in onsets, and it has few possible pronunciations, which are in free variation with one another:

Voiced uvular approximant [ʁ̞];

Voiced [ʁ] or voiceless [ʁ̥] lenis uvular fricative;

Voiceless uvular trill [ʀ̥];

Unaspirated voiceless uvular stop [q].

Vowels

Unstressed /ɪ, ɛ, ɵ, ɞ, ʌ/ may all be reduced to [ə].

The pharyngealized vowels correspond to the sequences of vowel + /r/ in the standard language.

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/.

References

Chemnitz dialect Wikipedia

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Consonants

Vowels

References