{{Short description|Subdialect of Low Prussian dialect of Low German}} {{Infobox language |name = Elbingian |nativename = |state = Poland (formerly Germany) |region = Elbingian upland (West Prussia, East Prussia) |ethnicity=Germans |familycolor=Indo-European |fam2=Germanic |fam3=West Germanic |fam4=North Sea Germanic |fam5=Low German |fam6=East Low German |fam7=Low Prussian |isoexception=dialect }}
'''Elbingian'''{{citation needed|reason=unsourced, and sounds as it could also cover the area of the [http://www.zeno.org/Zeno/0/Suche?q=%22Elbinger+Niederung%22&k=Bibliothek Elbinger Niederung]|date=August 2023}} ({{langx|de|Mundart der Elbinger Höhe|lit=dialect of the Elbingian upland}}<ref>A term already used in: ''Mundart der Elbinger Höhe. Mitgetheilt von D. Datt Spook'', in: ''Neue Preußische Provinzial-Blätter. Mit Beiträgen von [...]. Im Namen der Alterthums-Gesellschaft Prussia herausgegeben von Dr. A. Hagen. Jahrgang 1847. Juli – December. / Band IV.'', Königsberg, 1847, p. 470–475 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=ggYqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA470])</ref>) was a subdialect of Low Prussian spoken in East Prussia and West Prussia in the region of the {{ill|Elbingian upland|de|Wysoczyzna Elbląska|pl|Wysoczyzna Elbląska}}, north of Elbing.<ref name="Ziesemer-p.137">Walther Ziesemer: ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten''. Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 137 (map ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten'')</ref> It had a border with Oberländisch, Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets and Nehrungisch. It used to end shortly East of Elbing river.<ref name="Ziesemer-p.137" />
== Phonology == There was a border of ''/i/'', ''/e/'' and ''/ar/'' becoming ''/e/'', ''/a/'' and ''/or/'' respectively in its area.<ref>Heinrich Siemens: ''Plautdietsch''. tweeback verlag, Bonn, p. 45/46</ref><ref name="Ziesemer-p.137" /> It has many features in common with Natangian.<ref>Walther Ziesemer: ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten''. Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132</ref>
== References == {{reflist|2}}
== Bibliography == {{refbegin|2}} * {{cite book |last1=Kuhn |first1=Willi |editor1-last=Schuch |editor1-first=Hans J. |title=Die niederdeutsche Mundart auf der Elbinger Höhe: Kliene Geschichtge toom Grefflache opp Platt ut dee Kinger- onn Schooltied |publisher=Truso |year=2010 |language=de,nds}} {{refend}}
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