RE: [Cz-L] German dialect? from cornel fleming on 2010-04-12 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:53:05 +0100
To: 'Shula Klinger' <shuflute_at_telus.net>, czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
Reply-to: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>

Hi Shula! It was called Czernowitzer Deutsch and was basically Austrian
German but the grammar and sentence structure was developing it's own
variations which led to stories of people in Vienna recognising
Czernowitzers by the way they spoke. Cornel

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[mailto:bounce-5564779-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Shula Klinger
Sent: 11 April 2010 20:42
To: czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
Subject: [Cz-L] German dialect?

Dear all,

This is my first posting to the list. I'm so glad to have found it!

I have a question about dialects. I believe that my family - the
Pickers - spoke Yiddish as their first language but understand that they
spoke German as well. However, I have been told that it was a particular
dialect rather than what we now think of as mainstream German. Does
anyone on the list know what this dialect might have been, and if it
even had a name? I would love to know.

Kind regards to you all,

Shula Klinger
Vancouver, Canada
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