{{Short description|German dialect}} {{Infobox language |name = Samlandic |nativename = Samländisch |state = Poland, Russia (formerly Germany) |region = 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 }}
'''Samlandic''' was a Low Prussian dialect of Low German. It was divided into Ostsamländisch and Westsamländisch.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWVxnfaQAhIC&q=Saml%C3%A4ndisch+Niederpreussisch&pg=PA892|title = Dialektologie. 2. Halbband|isbn = 9783110203332|last1 = Besch|first1 = Werner|last2 = Knoop|first2 = Ulrich|last3 = Putschke|first3 = Wolfgang|last4 = Wiegand|first4 = Herbert E.|date = 14 July 2008| publisher=Walter de Gruyter }}</ref> Both were from East Prussia.<ref name="Memelland">Thorwald Poschenrieder, ''Deutsch- und baltischsprachige Preußen des Memellandes'', in: ''Collegium Europaeum Jenense an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Deutsch-litauische Kulturbeziehungen: Kolloquium zu Ehren von August Schleicher an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena vom 19. bis 20. Mai 1994. Herausgegeben von Gertrud Bense, Maria Kozianka, Gottfried Meinhold. Ausgabe 1995'', Jena, 1995, p. 109–150, here esp. p. 130 (map ''Die Sprachen und deutschen Mundarten Ostpreußens'')<br/> {{cite web |url=http://www.tausendschoen-verlag.de/PDF/Memelland.pdf |title=Memelland.pdf|website=www.tausendschoen-verlag.de |access-date=2021-10-20}}</ref>
== Geography == Westsamländisch was spoken West of Königsberg.<ref name="Memelland" /> Westsamländisch had a border with Ostsamländisch.<ref name="Memelland" />
Ostsamländisch was spoken around Königsberg, Labiau and Wehlau.<ref name="Memelland" /> Ostsamländisch had a border with Natangian, Westsamländisch and Eastern Low Prussian.<ref name="Memelland" />
Samlandic was spoken around Neukuhren and Heydekrug.<ref name="Walther Ziesemer 1924, p. 127">Walther Ziesemer: ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten''. Ferdinand Hirt, 1924, p. 127</ref>
== Phonology == Westsamländisch has, in contrast to the remainder of Samlandic, for (I) ''go'', (I) ''stand'' etc. ''jon'', ''schton'' etc.<ref name="Walther Ziesemer 1924, p. 127"/> ''O'' before R is spoken with a long vowel.<ref name="Walther Ziesemer 1924, p. 127"/> It has ''ick sint'' meaning ''I am'' and ''tije'' for ''ten''.<ref name="Walther Ziesemer 1924, p. 127"/> Westsamländisch has long u as long ü.<ref name="Walther Ziesemer 1924, p. 127"/> ''A'' is palatal.<ref>Walther Mitzka. ''Kleine Schriften zur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeographie''. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 324</ref> It has {{lang|nds|dorx}} (with the ''ach''-Laut) for High German ''durch'', English ''through''.<ref>Walther Ziesemer: ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten''. Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, 1924, p. 133</ref>
== History == During the latter age of the Teutonic order, Latvian-Curonian fishermen came to nowadays Pionerski, Primorye, and Filino.<ref>Walther Ziesemer: ''Die ostpreußischen Mundarten''. Ferdinand Hirt, 1924, p. 128</ref>
== Culture == Anke van Tharaw is a poem written in Samlandic.
== Bibliography == * Wanda Nimtz-Wendlandt: ''Die Nehringer'', Elwert, 1986. {{ISBN|3-7708-0834-7}}.
== References == {{reflist}}
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