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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4638 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 25 of 27 07 November 2012 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | ||
I would say so. But, just as an aside: Swiss dialects are unintelligible even to native speakers of German. The same goes for a lot of Austrian and even some South German dialects. Edited by Josquin on 08 November 2012 at 4:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4315 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 26 of 27 08 November 2012 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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not only southern dialects ... Moselfränkisch is almost incomprehensible for me (although oddly Rheinfränkisch is no big deal), and I don't think anybody not speaking Plattdeutsch (as in Low German) themselves would understand that dialect group either Edited by daegga on 08 November 2012 at 1:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4638 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 27 of 27 08 November 2012 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, you're probably right, daegga. But as I have had significantly more exposure to Plattdeutsch than to South German, I find it easier to understand. But that's of course my subjective point of view. I think to outsiders Platt may be absolutely unintelligible sometimes.
I have the habit of baffling my South German friends with some "Sauerländer Platt" from my Westphalian home region: "Wisse'n kitzken Platt met mäi kuiern?" for example means: "Willst du ein bisschen Platt mit mir sprechen?" (Do you want to speak a little bit of Platt with me?). They regularly don't understand a single word. But the Platt from the island of Rügen, which is the place where my father was born, is absolutely different again: "Wüsse'n lütt bädden Platt met mi snacken?" is the same sentence in "Rüganer Platt". Anyway, Platt speakers usually say Platt isn't a dialect but a language of its own. I think they're right. Edited by Josquin on 08 November 2012 at 5:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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