Berlinerisch
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Berlinerisch is a dialect of Berlin Brandenburgish spoken in Berlin. It originates from a Mark Brandenburgish variant. However, several phrases in Berlinerisch are typical for the city, indicating the manyfold origins of immigrants, among them the Huguenots from France.
The area of Berlin was one of the first to abandon East Low German as a written language (in the 16th century) and later also as a spoken language. This way the first dialect of Standard High German with definite Middle German roots but a Low German substratum apparently formed. Only recently has this new dialect expanded into the surroundings which until then used East Low German.
External links
- http://www.hu-berlin.de/presse/tsp/ws02_03/dialekt.html (in German)
- http://www.berlin-and-more.de/Berlin/berlinering_intro.htm (Berlinerisch-German dictionary)