Alzenau dialect

Halcnovian (Altsnerisch/Päurisch), alternatively spelled Haltsnovian, is a West Germanic dialect spoken in the former village of Hałcnów, which is now a district of Bielsko-Biała, Poland. It was the vernacular language of Hałcnów until 1945, when those thought to be ethnic Germans were expelled from Poland. Some examples of the language were recorded in the works of Karl Olma (1914-2001), who was active as a journalist in the Halcnovian exile community in West Germany after the II World War.[1] Recently the dialect has been researched from a linguistic standpoint by Marek Dolatowski.[2][3] It is related to the Wymysorys language.[4]

St. Hedwig linden tree in Hałcnów churchyard, commemorating inhabitants of the village expelled to Germany after 1945 (inscriptions in Polish and literary German)
Halcnovian
Haltsnovian
Altsnerisch / Päurisch
Native toPoland
RegionHałcnów
Native speakers
8 (2015)
Including passive users
Language codes
ISO 639-3–

Sample text

Ma hīrt guor oft di Loit huort kluoin

do hoit-zotāg werd veil geloin

an wār nė güt betrīga kon,

dos ei kai ōgefāner Mōn.

Do lōw ėch mir di ālde Welt

di wuor of andre Fis geštelt.

See also

Sources
  1. Mętrak, Maciej (2019). "Wymysorys (Vilamovicean) and Halcnovian: Historical and Present-Day Sociolinguistic Situation of Microlanguages in a Southern-Polish Language Island". The Slavs from the Turn of 19th and 20th Centuries Until Now: Linguistic, Historical and Political Changes and Literature: 7–19.
  2. Dolatowski, Marek (2013). "Słownictwo hałcnowskie jako odbicie historii etnolektu i historii wsi" (PDF). Kwartalnik Językoznawczy. 3: 1–10.
  3. Dolatowski, Marek (2015). "Pochodzenie etnolektu hałcnowskiego w świetle fonetyki i fonologii historycznej". Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Studia Indogermanica Lodziensia. 4. doi:10.18778/1506-7254.04.03.
  4. "hałcnowski i bielsko-bialska wyspa językowa". inne-jezyki.amu.edu.p (in Polish). Dziedzictwo językowe Rzeczypospolitej. 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2016.


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