# Elbingian

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{{Short description|Subdialect of Low Prussian dialect of Low German}}
{{Infobox language
|name       = Elbingian
|nativename = 
|state      = [Poland](/source/Poland) (formerly [Germany](/source/German_Empire))
|region     = Elbingian upland ([West Prussia](/source/West_Prussia), [East Prussia](/source/East_Prussia))
|ethnicity=[Germans](/source/Germans)
|familycolor=Indo-European 
|fam2=[Germanic](/source/Germanic_languages) 
|fam3=[West Germanic](/source/West_Germanic_languages)
|fam4=[North Sea Germanic](/source/North_Sea_Germanic)
|fam5=[Low German](/source/Low_German)
|fam6=[East Low German](/source/East_Low_German)
|fam7=[Low Prussian](/source/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](/source/subdialect) of [Low Prussian](/source/Low_Prussian) spoken in [East Prussia](/source/East_Prussia) and [West Prussia](/source/West_Prussia) in the region of the {{ill|Elbingian upland|de|Wysoczyzna Elbląska|pl|Wysoczyzna Elbląska}}, north of [Elbing](/source/Elbl%C4%85g).<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](/source/Oberl%C3%A4ndisch), [Mundart des Kürzungsgebiets](/source/Mundart_des_K%C3%BCrzungsgebiets) and [Nehrungisch](/source/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](/source/Natangian).<ref>Walther Ziesemer: ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten''. Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 132</ref>

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
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* {{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}}
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Category:East Prussia
Category:West Prussia
Category:Low Prussian dialect
Category:Languages of Poland

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